Government
Drug importer faces federal lawsuit
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 24, 2005
The U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York in December 2004 filed a civil lawsuit against Canada Care Drugs Inc. on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration. The lawsuit alleges that the company illegally imported unapproved and potentially unsafe drugs into the United States.
The complaint states that two undercover purchases by the FDA of FDA-approved drugs yielded unapproved drugs and three packages of another drug at once which it says could be harmful to patients if taken without consulting their physicians.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/01/24/gvbf0124.htm.