Erectile dysfunction medications took in Glengormley

8 April 2011

Large quantities of unlicensed medications have actually been taken by Department of Health officials throughout a search of a home in Glengormley.

A male was spoken with by department officers about unlawfully importing and subsequently supplying unlicensed impotence medicines through the internet.

The 47-year-old was likewise about other medication offences.

He will now be the topic of a report to the general public Prosecution Service.

The search was brought out by the department's Medicines Regulatory Group.

Its senior enforcement workplace, Peter Moore, said: "It is vital that we get the message throughout that unlicensed medications can be unsafe.

"These types of items being sold, normally online, have actually gone through no quality assurance and there can be no guarantee about their security.

"You simply do not know what you are taking or the conditions these products were made in. More notably, you do not understand the impact drugs like this may have on your health."