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Monday, August 10, 2015

Canadian company (Canada Drugs) charged in the U.S. with selling unapproved, counterfeit drugs


The Globe and Mail

.....An online Canadian pharmacy sold $78-million worth of unapproved, mislabelled and, in two cases, counterfeit cancer drugs to doctors across the United States over three years, U.S. government prosecutors said.....

..... The 14-year-old Winnipeg company’s website describes itself as offering low prices on medicine from Canada, the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. A company spokesman and its attorney did not return calls Monday.
The medicines named in the criminal indictment are mainly clinical drugs that treat cancer or the effects of chemotherapy. Nearly all of the drugs are legal in the U.S. when sold by FDA-approved manufacturers and marketers.
Health Canada suspended the company’s establishment licence in June, 2014, over what it called “significant concerns” about its manufacturing practices.....

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