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PETALING JAYA: Unregistered medication, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products sold mostly on ecommerce sites worth more than RM400,000 have been seized in Malaysia as part of an Interpol-coordinated operation.
PETALING JAYA: Unregistered pharmaceutical products worth RM2.5mil have been seized throughout Malaysia in a collective effort between Interpol, local police, customs and health authorities.
About 70% of products confiscated are controlled drugs under the Poisons Act 1952.
PETALING JAYA: A total of 2, 600 websites were found to be selling pharmaceutical products illegally, while 9, 115 units of unregistered pharmaceutical products in 167 postal parcels were confiscated during Operation Pangea XIV last month, says Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
The websites offer drugs that are not approved by the NPRA.