The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with its international partners moved this week against more than 1,050 websites which promote risky counterfeit drugs, as well as health care devices and medical units.
Illegal drugs and medical devices were seized worldwide and warnings were sent to offending website operators, FDA mentioned in their press release.
“Our endeavors to safeguard the health of citizens and affected patients, by preventing the online sales of risky outlawed health care solutions and devices will not halt, explained George Karavetsos, Director with the FDA’s office of Criminal investigations, during the media press release.
Counterfeit prescription drugs, involving brand-name medicines which can be sold illegally on the websites contain generic Nolvadex, generic Meridia, generic Valium, generic Truvada, as well as generic Advair Diskus, according to the FDA.
Mail screenings found that some of these counterfeit drugs — which include antidepressants, hormone substitution therapies, sleep aids, as well as medicines against erectile dysfunction and impotence, high cholesterol and seizures — were on the way to be shipped to consumers, according to the FDA.
In a global attempt directed by Interpol, FDA sent direct warning letters to the operators of nearly 500 websites offering unapproved or counterfeit health drugs to online clients and to 9 firms distributing unapproved medical devices and units on the internet.
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