EUROPOL AND FDA TEAM UP IN COUNTERFEIT MEDICINES CASE
February 1st, 2014
EUROPEAN Union (EU) police agency Europol and the USA’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have successfully combined efforts to break a counterfeit cancer drug ring based in Turkey. Two Turkish nationals from Istanbul have now been charged with smuggling fake prescription medicine from Turkey and other countries into the United States.A Europol note said the defendants are accused of obtaining unapproved, misbranded, adulterated, and counterfeit cancer treatment drugs from various sources. “They then used shipping labels that concealed the illegal nature of ...
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