Pharma working group on track-and-trace holds first meeting
Pharma supply chain security group Rx-360 has set up a work group to explore ways to help companies comply with serialization and track and trace legislation for medicines.
The Traceability Data Exchange Architecture work group – which held its first meeting last week – is concentrating on developing “conceptual models for the interoperable exchange of information needed to comply with global regulations,” according to a press release from the organisation. The work group says it will develop several models that will be discussed “at a high level and measured for … merits and impact on the supply chain.
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US Pharmacopeia joins safe online pharmacy group
Online pharmacy The US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has joined a group campaigning to raise awareness of illegal online medicines sales. USP has lent its support to the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP), an advocacy organisation set up to protect consumers from the scourge of rogue online pharmacies though measures such as public education, data collection and dissemination, best practices development and encouraging policy and legislative change.
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Blow away this smoke screen made from myths
Preventing smuggled cigarettes coming into Ireland is protecting young people from the very high risks of smoking, writes Kathleen O’Meara. The Irish Cancer Society wants an investigation into the Irish market, and asks why cigarettes legally sold into other countries end up being sold illegally here. Stories abound about the smuggling of cigarettes into Ireland. Some of them are presented as fact, some are simply urban myths. Like the one about rat droppings being found in counterfeit cigarettes allegedly made in factories in deepest China and sold on the Irish market.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/analysis/blow-away-this-smoke-screen-made-from-myths-283376.html
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Raid disrupts counterfeit cosmetics trade in Malaysia
Assorted cosmeticsAn operation in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur has resulted in the seizure of around $134,000-worth of counterfeit cosmetic goods. The surprise raid – set up by two leading cosmetics manufacturers with the help of lawfirm Wong & Partners and the enforcement division of the Ministry of Domestic Trade, Co-operatives and Consumerism (MDTCC) – resulted in the shutdown of several shops in the busy city centre shopping mall.
Lear MoreFake fertilizer makers slapped with fines
The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands of Lam Dong Province yesterday fined two companies VND322 million ($15,200) for manufacturing and selling fake fertilizer products.
The companies were identified as Long Viet and Viet Nga fertilizer production companies. The companies were also required to recall and hand over the fake products to the local authorities. — VNS.
http://vietnamnews.vn/society/259130/fake-fertilizer-makers-slapped-with-fines.html
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PolyOne aims brand protection tech at consumer electronics
Plastics specialist PolyOne has started selling its Percept authentication system in tandem with thermoplastic elastomers used to make consumer electronics products. First launched last year, the Percept range encompasses a series of formulation additives and taggants that can be added to polymer masterbatches during production and used to distinguish between authentic and counterfeit goods in the supply chain.
Lear MoreArrests in fake car products probe
A man and a woman in their forties have been arrested as part of a police investigation into the sale of fake car products. The pair were detained in Ballymena, Co Antrim, by detectives from the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s (PSNI) organised crime branch. Police also seized two cars, a Porsche and a BMW, as well as counterfeit key fobs, badges and wheel caps for brands including Audi and Mercedes during searches in Ballymena, Portstewart and Belfast.
Detective Inspector Todd Clements said officers had been following up on a complaint from a car manufacturer. “Officers have seized a significant amount of what we believe are counterfeit car products being sold online in a business with a substantial turnover
Lear MoreCounterfeit Seahawks merchandise can be hard to tackle
As the new Seahawks season picks up speed, fans are showing their enthusiasm by buying jerseys, flags and anything else tied to the team or their favorite player. But there’s no shortage of websites selling counterfeits, or just scamming the fans. Last month Anine Colaire’s adult stepson, Cory, was searching for a gray Steven Hauschka jersey at the pro shops near their home in Olympia. Because the stores and the National Football League (NFL) website didn’t have one, Colaire suggested he do a little more Web browsing. When he found the No. 4 jersey he wanted, Cory shelled out the $99. But the jersey never arrived.
http://seattletimes.com/html/sports/2024355360_seahawksscamsxml.html
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Revenue ‘making gains’ against cigarette smuggling
The Irish Cancer Society says the Revenue Commissioners have made significant gains in slowing the rate of tobacco being smuggled into Ireland. The group says contraband cigarettes, which are brought into Ireland illegally, are sold on the black market at cheaper prices.
Kathleen O’Meara, the Head of Advocacy and Communications with the Irish Cancer Society, said: “It’s very very important that the Revenue Commissioners and the enforcement agencies are doing their job. “We want to make sure they are fully resourced in doing that, and it’s very important that the supply chain of smuggled cigarettes is examined so that it can be stopped.”
http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/revenue-making-gains-against-cigarette-smuggling-639767.html
Lear MoreEFCC to partner Customs against tobacco smuggling
CHAIRMAN of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Lamorde, on Tuesday, promised to exploit the commission’s relationship with the Nigeria Customs Service, to forge a common front in intercepting and curbing illegal importation of tobacco into the country.
Lamorde, who made the promise when the Managing Director, British America Tobacco Company, Mr Chris McAllister, led members of his management team on a courtesy visit to the commission, assured the Tobacco Company of EFCC’s readiness to fight illegal importation of tobacco into the country. “If we have an idea of how some of these cigarettes are being smuggled into the country, we can work with you and even bring in Customs, because they are the ones at the entry points and border posts,” Lamorde said.
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