Norwich Magistrates\u2019 Court<\/a> to having sold it illegally in September 2025.\n<\/p>\n\n She also denies selling or offering to sell suspected counterfeit medications purporting to be Mounjaro.\n<\/p>\n
\n District Judge Matthew Bone granted her unconditional bail until a trial date of October 16.\n<\/p>\n
\n The boom in use of weight-loss treatments has seen a spike in illegal sales and criminal gangs involved in the production of counterfeit products.\n<\/p>\n
\n A spokesperson for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said: \u201cMost authorised weight loss medicines are prescription-only, meaning that a consultation with a doctor or qualified healthcare professional must be conducted to assess the patient’s suitability for the treatment.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cSourcing weight loss medicines from unregulated suppliers significantly increases the risk of getting a product which is either falsified or not approved for use in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Halton, 50, who runs a by-appointment beauty treatment business, denies selling injectable weight management and diabetes medication…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377],"class_list":["post-871363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}