SINGAPORE \u2014 About $41,000 worth of illegal cough syrup and prescription medicine were seized by the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) in two separate operations in November.<\/p>\n
HSA raided two addresses in Yishun on Nov 17 and seized 106 litres of codeine cough syrup worth about $29,000, following a tip-off by a courier company, the authority said in a release on Nov 28.<\/p>\n
The company had observed two suspicious crates from overseas at its storage facility, which were labelled as a well-known household bleach brand but were suspected to contain illegal cough syrup. They were due to be delivered to two places in Yishun that were eventually raided.<\/p>\n
A Singaporean male importer, 43, had arranged the delivery for profit, according to preliminary investigations, said HSA.<\/p>\n
Separately, a 23-year-old foreigner was caught by Immigration and Checkpoints Authority officers for trying to smuggle about 11,500 units of addictive prescription medicine at Changi Airport Terminal 3 on Nov 19.<\/p>\n
The medicine, which included sedatives and painkillers, were valued at about $12,000 in street value and were intended for illegal distribution here, said HSA.<\/p>\n
HSA said that a person should get prescription medicine only from a doctor or a pharmacy with a valid prescription.<\/p>\n
It added that investigations are ongoing for both cases.<\/p>\n
To report any activity involving illegal cough syrup and medicine, contact the Enforcement Branch of HSA on 6866-3485 from 8.30am to 5.30pm on weekdays or e-mail hsa_is@hsa.gov.sg<\/a><\/p>\n [[nid:726006]]<\/p>\n This article <\/a>was first published in The Straits Times<\/a>. Permission required for reproduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE \u2014 About $41,000 worth of illegal cough syrup and prescription medicine were seized by the Health Sciences…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,15779,118192,6591,42968,118193,58017,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-291764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-sciences-authority","10":"tag-illegal-cough-syrup","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-prescription-medicine","13":"tag-seizure","14":"tag-smuggling","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}