SAVEmed: save consumers from FAKE medicines

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UK Medicine Counterfeiter Made £15 Million Selling Fake Drugs To Victims

The United Kingdom's Medicine & Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) confiscated £14.4 million in assets from a convicted counterfeit medicine dealer. A 52 years old man from Manchester was sentenced to two years imprisonment in June 2009 following a conviction of selling and

UK Medicine Counterfeiter Made £15 Million Selling Fake Drugs To Victims

Antibiotics and other essential drugs are commonly counterfeited leading to treatment failure and sometimes even death

(source: WHO Medicines Strategy: Framework for Action in Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy - 2000 - 2003, http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/es/d/Jwhozip16e/8.3.html)

Help Us Fighting Counterfeit Medicines Online!

SAVEmed awareness campaign is focused on counterfeit medicines sold through the Internet, by means of the same elements used by counterfeiters in distributing and selling fake medicines (social media as Facebook and Twitter, information sites as Wikipedia, …

23 August 2012: A man from California sentenced for having distributed adulterated prescription drugs to physicians

A Californian man was sentenced to twenty-four months imprisonment for conspiring to distribute adulterated prescription drugs to physicians in the United States, including an oncologist. He plead guilty, and admitted distributing prescription drugs, …

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