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Article: Fake drugs a big concern at U.S. border: Pfizer is now tagging some of its products.(United States)
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 24, 2006
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As California considers delaying safeguards for prescription drugs, San Diego's U.S. Customs office is increasingly concerned about pharmacists buying counterfeit drugs from Mexico and Internet sales of fake drugs.
Greg Schulte, supervisor of the commercial fraud group at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's San Diego office, said the border region poses a dangerous dynamic.
"Two big cities lie next to each other, but deal with laws so differently," Schulte said of San Diego and Tijuana. "People manipulate that system."
The California State Board of Pharmacy is scheduled to vote April 26 on whether to delay implementing a law approved ...