Medicines watchdog says criminals are designing packaging and branding to look like legitimate product
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251111071730/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/11/crime-gangs-in-uk-start-making-own-branded-weight-loss-drugs
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It’s only a matter of time before the “other” organized crime starts making real patent drugs.
The price of drugs is completely arbitary, and some chemical compounds that cost $1000/kg to make are being sold at $400,000 year per patient. Not hard to get a quote from a factory in China, import it, then package in pills. Which is all these pharma companies do anyway.