Operation against counterfeit medicines
Source: Plenary - Aracaju / SE - 24/09/2010
Soon, at 10 am on Friday, the director of the State Health Surveillance, Antônio de Pádua Pombo, together with representatives of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) and the Federal Police in Sergipe, will give a press conference to present the result of the operation launched last Tuesday, the 24st, against the counterfeiting and smuggling of medicines.
In the action, carried out in the municipalities of Ribeirópolis, Carira, Pinhão, Estância, Umbaúba, Cristinápolis and Lagarto, two people were arrested, three pharmaceutical establishments were closed and several false drugs, with expired validity and without registration with Anvisa were seized. The conference will take place at the headquarters of the Federal Police Superintendence in Sergipe, located on Avenida Rio de Janeiro.