Written by Rupert Kircz | Monday, 18 January 2010 | There are 0 comments
Counterfeit Viagra with an estimated street worth of almost £300,000 was recently impounded by UK customs officials when it was discovered during routine checks at Newcastle Airport. Around 80,000 blue tablets which were supposed to be food additives had been shipped from Mumbai in India.

Mr. Fred Simmons from the UK Border Agency explained that medications brought into the UK illegally are usually fake and thus they are a “huge health risk” to anybody using them. He also highlighted something which we have been going on about at Ukmedix News for years which is that when you buy counterfeit medication online or on a street corner you are funding games which are linked to “serious organised crime.”
Mr. Mick Deats, the Head of Enforcement at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) explained that if you buy medications from illegal sources you “don’t know what you are taking”. He went on to say that often the dose was either dangerously high, dangerously low, did not contain anything or even contained something completely different to what it was supposed to have.
Mr. Deats also said that if the end user could see the disgusting and filthy conditions of the factories where these medicines were made they would not even touch them. The Food & Drug Administration in America describes the use of counterfeit medication as playing Russian Roulette with your health. The problem is often that because people have a friend who buys cheap Viagra and says it is good they think there is no harm in buying it for themselves, but the truth is you just don’t know when your number is going to come up and you get a dangerous tablet which harms your health or even kills you.
If the Viagra tablet that you buy is ridiculously cheap then the chances are it is fake. Viagra, Cialis and Levitra are all prescription medications and if you manage to get any of them without a prescription, again it is almost certainly counterfeit.
