Counterfeit medications

The Financial Crimes Unit has identified a Greek branch of a global racket trafficking counterfeit drugs and doping substances, making deliveries to the US and more than 15 countries.

A Turkish scientist has designed a new tool that can identify smaller concentrations of drug powders within 20 seconds with an infrared light technology.

The tool could provide law-enforcement officers and forensic chemists a quick and accurate way to identify illicit drugs or narcotic substances.

Financial crimes investigators in the port city of Piraeus had almost completed the count of a haul of counterfeit drugs seized from a container terminal on Tuesday morning, saying it consists of an estimated 23 million pills of the drug fenetylline, stamped to look like the Captagon brand.

Bulgaria is involved in an international drug scandal. It's about counterfeit packs of cancer medicines.

Packages are exported from our country to the Netherlands. Medicines are for patients who are treated in a hospital. This is the first case of forgery caught by the European medicines review system, bTV reported.

Smart labels on food products will come online in shops and supermarkets across Turkey after a series of cancelations and delays on Dec. 31, with the aim of bringing food products sold in the country up to European Union standards.

All online pharmacies or retailers of medicines legally operating in the European Union should display a new logo from 1 July to help patients avoid sellers of fake medicines.

The logo, which should appear on the webpages of online pharmacies or other online retailers, was introduced by the European Commission under the Falsified Medicines Directive to protect buyers of medicines.

The Turkish Health Ministry banned the sale of cancer drugs in pharmacies as of July 1. They will now only be provided in the hospitals, in order to "prevent malpractice."