On 15 November 2018, the National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute (INVIMA in Spanish) issued a statement announcing the confiscation of more than 85,000 fraudulent products that put the health of Colombians at risk, and made the authority’s intention clear of the upfront battle against crime.
A simultaneous operation was carried out that generated the following results: in Armenia, 49,697 fraudulent and adulterated drug products (homeopathic, phytotherapeutic), dietary supplements, food, so-called “sexual enhancers” and cosmetic products were confiscated. In Medellin, 33,257 high-cost medications, institutional use and fraudulent and adulterated medical devices were seized. And within the metropolitan area of Pereira, 2,504 units of fraudulent and adulterated medications and food products were confiscated.
Some of these products have a health alert issued by INVIMA (in Spanish) given they are considered fraudulent and others possibly entered the country illegally from the United States, Cuba and Ecuador.
http://bit.ly/2r0YxNR
