Over 1.6 million units of illegal medicines detained by HPRA
The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) today stated that the volume of detained illegal medicines in 2021 remained at a near record high, with its enforcement section detaining 1,604,589 million dosage units of falsified and other illegal products in 2021. Announcing its annual detention figures, the HPRA once again stressed the health dangers associated with sourcing prescription medicines online and advised the general public to only seek medicines from authorised sources. The HPRA states that the online supply of prescription products into and within Ireland is illegal and stresses that consumers can have no guarantee of the safety or quality of medicines they are seeking to buy outside of the regulated pharmacy supply chain.
A number of organisations, including the European Medicines Agency, the European Commission and patient organisations such as EURORDIS, a non-governmental patient-driven alliance of patient organisations representing rare disease patient organisations in 70 countries, have also pledged their support."
