20150701 ECA新闻：MHRA通告重大假药案件

20150701 ECA新闻：MHRA通告重大假药案件

MP News
01/07/2015

MHRA informs about huge Counterfeit Case

MHRA通告重大假药案件

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has published a press release about a huge counterfeit case. Fake medicinal products - worth 15.8 million British Pounds - have been seized in the UK. The seizure is the biggest recorded to date in the UK.

英国药监刚公布了一起重大假药案件。假药----价值1580万英磅---在英国被没收，该没收值是英国到目前为止记录中最大的一笔。

The operation called "Pangea VIII" was coordinated by Interpol and has lead to 156 individuals arrested worldwide. The majority of the products seized in UK originated from India, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. The medicines seized cover a wide variety of medicinal products. This shows again the importance of actions against counterfeit medicines. Just recently counterfeit products made their way into the legal supply chain in Germany.

该行动命名为“攀捷8号”，是由国际刑警组织协助进行的，至今已在全球逮捕156人。在英国所没收的药品主要来自于印度、中国、香港和新加坡，没收的假药品种众多。该案件再次显示出反假药行动的重要性。最近假药已经进入了德国的合法供应链。

The US FDA also took actions against the counterfeiters in this case. Moreover, even Google participated in the investigation from Interpol against the counterfeiters. This shows the dimension of the problem and the global impact. In the case from Indonesia for example, "authorities uncovered an operation where criminals were altering the expiry date or the amount of the active ingredient on packages of counterfeit, expired and unregistered medicines at the warehouse and returning them to a pharmacy for sale" (as reported by Europol).

美国FDA在本案件中也对假药采取了措施。甚至谷歌也参与到了国际刑警的反假调查中。这显示出问题的多维性以及全球性影响。例如在印度尼西亚的案件中，“药监发现犯罪分子正在篡改仓库里已过效期或未登记的假药包装上药品的效期和活性成分数量，然后将它们返回到药房销售”（据EUROPOL报告）。