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UK makes world's biggest-ever seizure of fake weight loss jabs
- Officials executed a raid on a Northampton warehouse and seized around £250,000 of fake weight-loss drugs, packaging, and equipment.
- Authorities say the site was part of an illicit global market that targeted unlicensed weight-loss medicines endangering patients and enriching organised criminals, while health guidance stresses obtaining prescriptions from a registered pharmacy against a healthcare professional's prescription.
- Searches turned up raw chemical ingredients and more than 2,000 unlicensed retatrutide and tirzepatide pens, and labels suggested tirzepatide with Eli Lilly warning buyers of `no way of knowing what they actually contain`.
- MHRA's Andy Morling called the seizure a `landmark result and a major blow to the illegal trade`, stopping tens of thousands of potentially fatal products from entering circulation with no arrests made so far.
- The MHRA said this is the first illicit production facility for weight-loss medicine discovered in the UK and is believed to be the largest single seizure ever recorded by a law enforcement agency.
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DailyTruthReportUK officials bust illegal weight loss drug production facility — the largest seizure of the popular pens in the world
Thousands of knockoff pens were confiscated by enforcement agents for the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.
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UK seizes record haul of illegal weight-loss drugs in factory raid
Britain's medicines regulator said on Friday it had made the world's largest seizure of unlicensed weight-loss medicines, dismantling a factory that made jabs labelled as containing the ingredient in Eli Lilly's Mounjaro.
·United Kingdom
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