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[Snowy]

Most sex drugs sold here fake
Apinya Wipatayotin

Men who buy sex enhancing drugs from local pharmaceutical shops should beware - at least 90% of these drugs are fake, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said yesterday.

Werawan Tangkeo, the deputy secretary-general, said most counterfeit drugs for people with erectile dysfunction came from China and India.

He conceded the FDA's stringent regulations prohibiting chemists from selling sex enhancing drugs freely might be the main reason for the spread of fake drugs.

Drug counterfeiting is a thriving global business. The World Health Organisation estimated sales of fake drugs will rise from US$35 billion in 2005 to at least $75 billion by 2010.

It also found that 32.1% of counterfeit drugs have no key active ingredients and 21.4% had false ingredients.


Full article - http://www.bangkokpost.net/News/18Jan2007_news30.php

[Jingthing(X)]

Generic viagra and cialis from India is a better bet than the "real" name brand drug as it is less likely to be fake.

[Snowy]

Generic viagra and cialis from India is a better bet than the "real" name brand drug as it is less likely to be fake.

India, together with China, is a major producer of fake or counterfeit drugs, often being labelled as generic variants, and being sold on the internet and in unlicensed pharmacies and other outlets around the world, so I wouldn't give that deluded statement much credence (except, of course, if it can be proved that the generic drug is being produced with the agreement of or under license from the original developer/producer). The trouble is that such proof is very hard to come by as it is almost impossible to distinguish the real or generic from the fake because the counterfeiters have got the packaging aspect of the business down to a fine art.

If you can't afford the 'real thing', provided on prescription from a doctor, better to do without (especially if it is a 'social 'or 'lifestyle' drug), because you just don't know what has gone into these copies - which can include such things as brick dust, paint, and have coverings made from furniture polish - some of these copies are more likely to kill you than to cure you!

Unfortunately, even drugs bought on doctor's prescription aren't completely immune from being counterfeited. It has been found that illicit drug companies are targetting pharmaceutical wholesalers, and in some case have penetrated the National Health service drug supply chain in the UK with fake copies of heart and other drugs - see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6224713.stm.

You can bet your bottom dollar (or baht) that this is a worldwide problem not confined to the UK.