Erectile dysfunction medications seized in Glengormley

8 April 2011

Large quantities of unlicensed medicines have been taken by Department of Health officials during a search of a home in Glengormley.

A guy was spoken with by department officers about illegally importing and consequently providing unlicensed impotence medicines by means of the internet.

The 47-year-old was likewise questioned about other medicine offenses.

He will now be the of a report to the Public Prosecution Service.

The search was performed by the department's Medicines Regulatory Group.

Its senior enforcement workplace, Peter Moore, said: "It is essential that we get the message across that unlicensed medicines can be unsafe.

"These kinds of products being offered, normally online, have actually undergone no quality assurance and there can be no assurance about their safety.

"You simply do not understand what you are taking or the conditions these products were made in. More significantly, you do not understand the result drugs like this might have on your health."