Health watchdog issues warning as fake weight-loss drugs seized in Ireland

Fake weight-loss medications can pose serious health risks, the Health Products Regulatory Authority warns.

Seizures of fake medication claiming to contain semaglutide, also found in Ozempic and Wegovy, have shot up in Ireland from 32 units last year to 254 so far this year.

Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) director of compliance Grainne Power warned they did not know what was in the products seized and these can pose serious health risks.