China, considered the capital of counterfeit drugs, periodically announces crackdowns on counterfeiters or makes big sweeps in which it arrests dozens, or even hundreds, of suspects. In separate events last year, it reported shutting down hundreds of manufacturing facilities making counterfeit drugs and toxic drug capsules. It is at it again, with the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) saying it has a 6-month campaign to stop drug and traditional Chinese medicine counterfeiters and online retailers of counterfeits.
According to Reuters, there were few details and no mention of regulation changes--only the pledge to stop offenders "We must resolutely punish illegal acts, expose illegal enterprises, recall problematic products," Wu Zhen, the agency's deputy commissioner, said in a statement.
Whether this is something more serious than earlier efforts has yet to be seen. In a major display of action last August, 18,000 Chinese police officers executed the roundup of nearly 2,000 drug counterfeiting suspects and destroyed 1,100 production plants. The fake drugs, valued at $182 million, were advertised for everything from hypertension to cancer and rabies, authorities said. Two months earlier, they had announced a much smaller sweep of capsule makers that were allegedly using gel made from leather scraps to save money.
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