Police seize 3 tons of fake drugs

By ETCO

Source: O Liberal Online - PA - 07/11/2009

On Friday (6), approximately three tons of herbal remedies were seized, used to cure various diseases.

The drugs were found in a factory that works illegally in Hortolândia. The same marketed fake drugs to all of Brazil and came to move only in the last month around R $ 140 thousand.

The factory was discovered after the police found a pharmacy in Bragança Paulista, where they found several medicines with the address of the Hortolâbdia factory.


The factory-owned pharmacist was arrested for falsifying drugs. According to the Secretariat of Public Security, the crime is unreliable.