More than 15,000 falsified medicines found in UK supply chain over past two years

Exclusive: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has identified 15,000 falsified medicine packs since the UK left the European Union in January 2020.
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According to a spokesperson for the MHRA, the vast majority of medicines supplied from illegal trading websites are unauthorised generics

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Around 15,500 falsified medicine packs were found in the UK’s authorised medicines supply chain over the past two years, The Pharmaceutical Journal has learned.

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