Medicines watchdog says criminals are designing packaging and branding to look like legitimate product
    • notaviking@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Exactly, if they make an extremely desired product hard to get, they call them criminals I would rather call them smart business people, seeing a gap in the market and filling it. Yes the entrenched powers will cry they do not follow regulations and they will put people’s lives in danger… They just want to be the only competitor as little competition to make as much money.

      Bought my fake “Ozempic” from a criminal (a close friend actually), yeah I know it was a cheap Chinese knockoff, worked like a charm, 8kg in two months and was well worth the risk.

      Our government has even banned the use of Semaglutide or the other versions for weight loss, so basically rolled out the red carpet for “criminals” to fill the clear gap in the market

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        yeah I know it was a cheap Chinese knockoff,

        It was likely coming out of exactly they same plant as the branded drug.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        In Canada, some idiot at Novo ignored letters to renew the Ozempic patent and now the patent is expired in Canada. That drug had about $10B of income before patent expiry, now generics are being made.

        Officially the dumbest corporate mistake ever. But they saved $400 in a processing fee.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    And here is my idiot self that read “gangs do their own brand of weighs”, zoomed in on the weighs brand and wondered how weird the UK might be 😵‍💫

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Yeah, I for reals thought there was an underground market for bathroom scales and was very confused.