Israel, The Source Of Fake Impotence Pills

The top drug organisation in Israel, the Pharmaceutical Society of Israel recently announced that the selling of counterfeit drugs and impotence pills was reaching dangerous levels and serious health consequences would follow if the practice was not controlled and stamped out.

A senior official explained that counterfeit medicines are made with no regulation and no checks on hygiene, quality and toxicity unlike licenced drug producers who must adhere to very strict rules and conditions, as well as the possibility of criminal action against them if their products are found to be substandard. The counterfeit market is usually financed by criminal elements who are on the run from the law and who have no proper medical knowledge.

When fake medicines have been tested the results have beeen wildly different. For example with some examples of fake Viagra, the erectile dysfunction medicine, the active compound sildenafil citrate was noted be to present in excess sometimes and in other cases non existant. The use of fake erectile dysfunction drugs could cause a slow degrading of health or in some cases sudden health complications brought on by an incorrect dose or a dangerous compound in the medicine.

Israeli companies are thought to be involved in the supply and trading of fake medicines on the internet. Israel is also thought to be a hub where fake medicines are sent to from other countries to be repackaged and then sent on to other countries. The countries that are said to be the biggest producers of counterfeit erectile dyfunction drugs are China, India and Pakistan.

Officials in both the EU and the USA are aware of the growing levels of fake drugs leaving Israel and are urging importers to be more vigilant and careful as well as warning internet users to be sure that any erectile dysfunction drugs that they buy online come from local source and that online consultations and doctors advice form part of the online set up.

The Pharmaceutical Society of Israel said that the country needed to clean up its act and clamp down on the illegal impotence medicines before cases of people getting seriously ill started to surface. The two most commonly found fake erectile dysfunction medicines were Viagra and Cialis and estimates were that as much as one third of all impotence drugs in Israel were fake.

As well as erectile dysfunction drugs, the criminal producers of these drugs were also cashing in on other popular drugs like Tamiflu, Reductil and Xenical. The real drug producers such as Pfizer (Viagra) and Eli Lilly (Cialis) were behind calls to step up the policing of the drug market but were hampered by the fact that the illegal drug market is very lucrative financially and so the distributors were prepared to take big risks for the returns.

The WHO in has in the past asked Israel to monitor the sales of erectile dysfunction drugs more carefully and to allocate more time and money catch the criminals involved, warning that unless drastic action was taken people's health could be seriously damaged and death could be caused.