Official sounds alarm on illegal medicines

Official sounds alarm on illegal medicines

JAMBI: Dozens of illegal medicines from China have been sold
openly in Jambi province over the last several weeks, a
government official said on Friday.

Darwin Karim, head of the Jambi Food and Drug Monitoring
Agency, said the medicines had been declared illegal because they
were not registered with the Ministry of Health.

He said the agency would issue official warnings to drugstores
selling the illegal medicines, ordering the medicines to be
destroyed. If the warnings are ignored, the agency will bring the
drugstores to court. -- JP