Erectile dysfunction medications seized in Glengormley

8 April 2011

Large of unlicensed medications have been taken by Department of Health authorities throughout a search of a house in Glengormley.

A guy was interviewed by department officers about unlawfully importing and subsequently supplying unlicensed impotence medicines through the internet.

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

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

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

Its senior enforcement office, Peter Moore, stated: "It is crucial that we get the message throughout that unlicensed medications can be hazardous.

"These kinds of products being offered, normally online, have actually gone through no quality control and there can be no assurance about their safety.

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