Thursday, March 29, 2012

Aravot: Counterfeit medicines in Armenia=?UTF-8?B?4oCZ?=s drug-stores?

It is about two weeks the drugstores in Armenia were found to be selling counterfeit medicines, the paper has learned.

There’s no available information on where those medicines were produced, what serial number they bear and who imported them to the country, but the fact is they remain on sale, without anyone taking measures to prevent their consumption, the paper comments.

It says further that the sale Nycomed, a major company on Armenia’s pharmaceutical market, disovered those medicines and immediately reported their sale to security agencies. According to the paper, the Nycomed specialists noticed that the drug-stores in Armenia sell the duplicate version of the medicines which their company imports to Armenia and which are officially registered in the country. They immediately reported the case to Armenia’s National Security Service and other government bodies, the paper says. The Union of Drug Manufacturers and Importers reportedly launched a monitoring too and later submitted its findings to Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Ministry of Health officials, calling for measures to ban the drugs’ sale.

Armenian News

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