Mail order drugs among 130,000 tablets seized

ERECTILE dysfunction tablets bought over the internet were among more than 130,000 tablets and capsules seized by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) in 2006, according to its annual report.

The IMB’s enforcement section initiated 469 cases against individuals and organisations for breaches of medicinal product legislation during that year — and the figure has more than doubled to more than 1,000 so far this year, according to a spokeswoman.

The breaches in 2006 saw medicines such as antibiotics, anti-depressants, anabolic steroids and erectile dysfunction treatments imported, sold in shops or supplied over the internet which had not secured a manufacturer’s licence.