Erectile dysfunction medications seized in Glengormley

8 April 2011

Large amounts of unlicensed medications have been taken by Department of Health officials during a search of a house in Glengormley.

A guy was interviewed by department officers about illegally importing and subsequently providing unlicensed impotence medicines via the web.

The 47-year-old was likewise questioned about other medicine offenses.

He will now be the subject of a report to the Public Prosecution Service.

The search was by the department’s Medicines Regulatory Group.

Its senior enforcement workplace, Peter Moore, said: “It is important that we get the message across that unlicensed medications can be unsafe.

“These kinds of products being offered, normally online, have actually gone through no quality control and there can be no guarantee about their security.

“You merely do not know what you are taking or the conditions these items were made in. More significantly, you do not understand the effect drugs like this may have on your health.”