The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) issued a warning on Monday to consumers of weight loss pills purchased online. Specifically, it warned that over 25 different diet pills marketed as “herbal” products actually contain undeclared pharmaceutical ingredients, in violation of the FDA guidelines. The “tainted” weight loss products containing the alleged active pharmaceutical ingredients include:
“2 Day [...]
From the monthly archives:
December 2008
I previously wondered whether the government would indict individuals involved in internet pharmacy operations after the passage of the Ryan Haight Act but before its 2009 effective date. I now have my answer. David A. Vogel, Jonathan Vogel and Carrie Demers were indicted in the U.S. District Court for East Texas for their alleged involvement in [...]
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Disciplinary proceedings for pharmacist Rick Kloxin and Hogan’s Pharmacy owners Mark Poindexter and JoLane Poindexter wrapped up last week. Their licenses were suspended last March, as a result of several complaints about their internet pharmacy business. The three were later charged in August “with felony counts of computer crime, conspiracy to commit computer crime, commercial [...]
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Bond was set in late November by an Ohio judge for defendants Dr. Ramon Scruggs ($5,000), Craig Romey ($2,500), Angel Ortero ($1,000) and police lieutenant Anthony Tuleta ($1,500), according to Channel 5 Cleveland. Scruggs was charged with prescribing steroids over the internet to his three co-defendants. Tuleta, Romey, and Ortero were each charged with steroid [...]
Dr. Christian Ellis Hageseth was denied a bail reduction yesterday by a California judge in an internet pharmacy case in which the state alleges that Hageseth was “practicing medicine without a license in California.” This case raises a number of unique jurisdictional issues with respect to online pharmacy operations. Hageseth has, so far unsuccessfully, argued [...]
The Department of Justice’s 2009 National Drug Threat Assessment, among other things, predicts that the Ryan Haight Act will “most likely reduce the number of rogue internet pharmacies selling controlled prescription drugs.” The report further states that the Act “prohibits the delivery, distribution, and dispensing of controlled substances over the internet without a prescription written by [...]
