The number of weight loss drugs detained by the authorities after being bought online by Irish consumers increased by almost 500 per cent last year, the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has said.
It said there had been a 66 per cent increase in the amount of illegal medicinal products detained during 2010 with steroids, sedatives, drugs claiming to aid weight loss and drugs aimed at combating erectile dysfunction being the most commonly impounded.
All told, the IMB’s enforcement section confiscated 822,484 dosage units of counterfeit and illegal medicines last year compared with 494,502 units in 2009. Its enforcement officers, in conjunction with Revenue and Garda officials, detained 680,958 tablets/capsules; 1,665 packs of liquids; 933 packs of creams and 138,928 dosage units of assorted products deemed to be illegal medicinal products.
Source: Conor Pope, The Irish Times, 25/03/2011
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