Health Canada has recently been drawing up a special anti-counterfeit plan...

Following on from a couple of worrying cases when people bought medication over the internet and then got very sick or even died the medical authorities in Canada have decided to clamp down on fake medication and try to shut down illegal internet sites and prosecute the people who run them.

Earlier this year a woman passed away when she took some fake anxiety medication which was ordered online and the amount of people who have been conned by buying fake erectile dysfunction drugs on the internet is growing every year. At Ukmedix News we have seen reports that you can buy Viagra at open markets in towns all over the Canada and most of it is fake.

When we refer to fake Viagra can mean one of two things. Either the Viagra is just a completely dud pill sometimes even made of cement but most of the time just a harmless powder pill, or a pill that actually does have the active ingredient of Viagra in it, but which is not made by the drug company Pfizer who have the patent for the drug and thus it is extremely likely to be of very low quality. We have come across reports at Ukmedix News that some of the counterfeit Viagra sold on the market today has either too much of the key ingredient in it or in most cases too little of it.

Health Canada which is the most senior medical authority in the country has recently been drawing up a special anti-counterfeit plan which will hopefully mean that less of the fake drugs get to consumers. The idea is to strengthen the amount of people who enforce the law, to cultivate stronger links with the police and also, [and we reckon this is the most important one at Ukmedix News], educate the public about the dangers of buying fake and counterfeit medicine online.