E-DRUG: Fake Artesunate Warning Sheet
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Dear Colleagues,
Re: Fourteen different types of counterfeit artesunate tablets in SE Asia
Please find below a link to a revised edition of the warning sheet
describing 14 different types of counterfeit artesunate, labelled as made by Guilin Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., and found in mainland SE Asia. This lists the Types containing small amounts of artesunate and new Type 13 and Type 14 which bears the Myanmar registration number. The chemical analysis of Types 13 and 14 are not complete.
The link is: www.tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk/News.htm
This sheet is meant for health professionals and drug regulatory
authorities. Any comments would be gratefully received.
If you would like a CD of the Word file containing scans of the holograms
and stickers, to use the pictures elsewhere, or to translate the sheet into
another language please let me know (paul@tropmedres.ac).
Please disseminate this information. If you find any similar fake artesunate
we would be very grateful for the information - so that we can map the
distribution.
Much stronger action by governments and international organisations is
needed and we hope that this information will prompt vigorous action to
combat this under-recognised and serious public health problem.
Please contact us if you would like any further information.
Very best wishes,
Paul Newton
paul@tropmedres.ac