{"id":3252,"date":"2010-10-19T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T13:59:37","slug":"toxic-counterfeit-drugs-shipped-through-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/toxic-counterfeit-drugs-shipped-through-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Toxic Counterfeit Drugs Shipped Through Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"chapeau\">Counterfeit medicines are a serious  problem afflicting some 90 countries worldwide, and they kill an  estimated 700,000 people annually. The key to fighting the \u201cpandemic\u201d of  counterfeit drugs is building partnerships among drug companies,  pharmaceutical trade groups, law enforcement and customs officials  worldwide.<\/div>\n<p>Rubie Mages, the director  of strategic planning for global security at the U.S. drug manufacturer  Pfizer, revealed, at the 2010 U.S.-Africa Private Sector Health  Conference, organized by the Corporate Council on Africa, on October 6  in Washington, that since 2004 her company alone has seized more than 62  million doses of counterfeit medicines worldwide, before those  medications could be passed off to consumers by unscrupulous pharmacies  and retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Counterfeiting is a crime of \u201cfraud and deceit,\u201d Mages  said, and counterfeiters \u2014 motivated by pure greed \u2014 see their  enterprise as high-profit and low-risk. She said counterfeit drugs are  often shipped to their final destinations via a complex route to try to  throw off any law enforcement bodies that might be tracking the  shipments. \u201cThere are instances where tablets going from Mauritius to  Seychelles went by way of Paris, obviously not a direct route,\u201d just to  throw off authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, she said, counterfeit drugs  manufactured in China were secretly shipped to Hong Kong, then to Dubai,  then to the United Kingdom and on to the Bahamas \u2014 all in an attempt to  bypass customs and law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not just fake designer bags and pirated videos enriching criminals in the Bahamas, as the nation is named in the transshipment of counterfeit prescription drugs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[93,31,67],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-corruption","tag-crime","tag-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}