{"id":2355,"date":"2025-09-06T02:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/2355\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T02:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T02:31:19","slug":"400000-illegal-medicines-seized-between-january-and-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/2355\/","title":{"rendered":"400,000 illegal medicines seized between January and June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 400,000 units of illegal and falsified medicines were seized between January and June this year, according to the Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA).<\/p>\n<p>It represents a reduction on the number seized during the same period last year when over 700,000 units were seized by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent seizures included sedatives, anabolic steroids, erectile dysfunction medicines, and more than 10,000 unauthorised GLP-1 patches claiming to contain semaglutide or tirzepatide, used for weight loss and for people with diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>The HPRA is reminding the public today that purchasing prescription medicines from unregulated sources means people can not be sure what they are getting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/000cb99c-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe HPRA say there was a reduction in seizures from the same period last year<\/p>\n<p>It said that these products may be unsafe, ineffective, or fake &#8211; and could seriously harm health.<\/p>\n<p>Gr\u00e1inne Power, Director of Compliance at the HPRA, advised the public to safeguard their health by only using prescription medicines under the guidance of a qualified healthcare professional and by sourcing products authorised for the Irish market from a registered pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>The HPRA said that 2,820 websites, webpages, e-commerce listings and\/or social media pages amended or shutdown in the first six months of this year.<\/p>\n<p>The authority works in close co-operation with colleagues from An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na and Revenue&#8217;s Customs Service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 400,000 units of illegal and falsified medicines were seized between January and June this year, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-2355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}