Customs in Dubai Seize Millions of Spurious Viagra Pills
About seven million inauthentic and illegal drug pills were seized by Dubai Customs when UAE authorities raided a warehouse in the Dry Port in Dubai.
The seized medicines included Viagra, Levitra, and other sexual medications and supplements, which were found to be fake and illegally manufactured.
This is not the first, and most likely not the last, time that fake Viagra shipments and stocks get seized by authorities in different countries and ports around the world.
The pharmaceutical industry is very lucrative and active worldwide and that is a strong motive for drug counterfeiters to keep making and pushing their illegal copies of legitimate medications. Customs and health authorities in all countries always try their best to combat and stop fake medicines before they reach the end user, but it’s also the consumer’s responsibility to always talk to their doctor before buying or taking a new medicine, and to purchase the medicine from a reputable, certified drugstore.
A Shipment of Thousands of Fake Viagra Pills Seized in Miami
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the Miami International Airport confiscated 21,600 counterfeit Viagra tablets (about 50 pounds of the little blue pills).
The shipment was seized on Oct 9, and was coming from India, where many illegal, fake drug manufacturers operate.
Samples of the pills were sent to a lab for testing, which confirmed that the pills were not genuine Pfizer made Viagra, nor anything close to it, i.e. the pills were meant to rip off ignorant consumers.
This is not the first, and will not be the last time that such shipments of bogus drugs are seized. Customers who purchase Viagra online, or from an unlicensed local retailer without a prescription usually fall a victim to bad people (or criminals) who traffic fake Viagra.