UN warns of 'lethal' fake drugs
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The UN says fake prescription drugs are swamping developing nations with sometimes fatal results.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 24, 2004 - The prescription bottle may say &quot;Made in England,&quot; but the Food and Drug Administration worries that Illinois&#39; plan to help residents buy drugs from the United Kingdom may also allow counterfeit drugs from other countries.
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TechWeb - Western donations of old computers, mobile phones and televisions could be toxic &quot;hand-me-downs&quot; posing a hazard to the environment of poor countries, a major U.N. conference will hear this week.
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Prescription drug abuse is about to exceed the use of illicit street narcotics worldwide, and the shift has spawned a lethal new trade in counterfeit painkillers
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Two poisoning cases 10 years apart illustrate what happens when nations fail to police the global pipeline of drug ingredients.
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There is concern British soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are being treated with a drug that has not been fully tested and licensed.
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The World Health Organization aims to harness smart technology to stop counterfeit medicines flooding developing world markets with sometimes fatal results.
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Description: A government task force is recommending against allowing people to import prescription drugs from other nations. The task force says it would be exceedingly difficult to guarantee that drugs imported
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Officials investigate why  seemingly harmless chemicals were mistaken for bio-warfare agents at a UN building.
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Harry Lime, peddling diluted penicillin  in post-war Vienna in the 1949 film "The Third Man," was an  early pioneer: today the counterfeit medicine business has gone  global, fuelled by the "perfect channel" of the Internet,  according to a U.N. drug watchdog.
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The United Nations on Monday added 14 pesticides and chemicals, including lead additive for petrol, to a growing list of toxic substances in which trade is restricted.
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A substance removed from the United Nations office last week is not a toxic chemical agent, police and a U.N. official told CNN on Thursday.
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Harry Lime, peddling diluted penicillin  in post-war Vienna in the 1949 film &quot;The Third Man,&quot; was an  early pioneer: today the counterfeit medicine business has gone  global, fuelled by the &quot;perfect channel&quot; of the Internet,  according to a U.N drug watchdog.
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Counterfeit prescription drugs are proliferating in Russia and elsewhere, according to the industry and the Food and Drug Administration.
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Millions regularly buy prescription drugs in spite of risk they could be sold fakes, research shows
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The Government has launched a campaign warning smokers about the estimated one million fake cigarettes smuggled into the UK which contain lead and arsenic.
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Description: A Bush administration task force has raised serious doubts about whether drugs imported from abroad can be made safe.