Melbourne pharmacy raided in investigation into illegal weight loss drugs

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Melbourne pharmacy raided in investigation into illegal weight loss drugs
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Large amounts of medication have been seized from a Melbourne pharmacy as part of a wider investigation into businesses that are allegedly illegally making copycat weight loss drugs. The medicines regulator said it held "serious concerns around the safety and efficacy of the medication if it were to be dispensed to the public".

Large amounts of medication have been seized from a Melbourne pharmacy as part of a wider investigation into businesses that are allegedly illegally making copycat weight loss drugs . The medicines regulator said it held "serious concerns around the safety and efficacy of the medication if it were to be dispensed to the public".The TGA is considering banning certain types of weight loss drugs from being compounded, and will make a final decision by June 2024.

The national therapeutic goods regulator has raided a compounding pharmacy in Melbourne as part of an ongoing probe into the alleged manufacture and supply of compounded weight loss drugs. TGA officers and staff from the Victorian Pharmacy Authority arrived at Como Compounding Pharmacy in the inner-city suburb South Yarra on Thursday morning. Officers spent more than five hours searching the premises, photographing documents and seizing items including equipment, glass bottles and postage parcels, that were sealed in evidence bags and removed from the shopfron

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Melbourne Pharmacy Raid Investigation Illegal Weight Loss Drugs Copycat Medicines Regulator Safety Efficacy TGA Compounding Pharmacy Probe Manufacture Supply Officers Staff Victorian Pharmacy Authority Como Compounding Pharmacy South Yarra

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