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Re: capnmike post# 7020

Wednesday, 01/18/2006 9:43:35 PM

Wednesday, January 18, 2006 9:43:35 PM

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"The FDA and outside experts are particularly worried now because of an increase in the quantity of drugs sold over the Internet and shipped from overseas to U.S. consumers. Those sales pose the greatest risk of counterfeiting, they say. "The safest way for someone to buy drugs ... is to use a pharmacy in their community where they have a relationship with their physician," said Dennis Lyons, a professor at the University of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.

While it is rare for counterfeit drugs to make their way to neighborhood pharmacies, the FDA says it is a growing problem. The agency has investigated about 20 cases per year since 2000, compared with an average of five in the 1990s."

Excerpt from http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/apps/news/index.cfm?start=6&sort=4

Thanks for the link, CAP...appears that the Uof Maryland were somewhat ahead of Valimed. The bolded words show the true reason for concern. Our drug companies are nervous about people buying drugs from outside the country, Cuts into their profits, it does.



Ole Crowe

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