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Cheryl A. Thompson

BETHESDA, MD 29 July 2009—A tractor-trailer carrying Sanofi-Aventis drug products was stolen earlier this month, and FDA said it wants help finding those products.

Pharmacies and pharmaceutical distributors are being asked to contact FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations, at 800-551-3989 or www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm123025.htm, if they have received a suspicious or unsolicited offer after July 9 for any of the following products:

• BenzaClin, lot 8047564,
• Lovenox 120 mg, lots 12210, 12221, and 12218,
• Lovenox 80 mg, lot 28534,
• Lovenox 30 mg, lot 29395,
• Nasacort AQ, lot N09108A, or
• Xyzal, lot 8047787.

It was back in 2002 that Dermot Twomey addressed 150 pharmacists at a meeting in Cork and warned them that the good times would not last forever.

The treasurer of the Irish Pharmacy Union (IPU), the pharmacists’ representative body, told them that the fees generated from dispensing medicines under the state drugs schemes would not remain as high they were.

‘‘I knew things had to change, but I had no idea that the minister for health would try to push an entire sector over a cliff,” Twomey told The Sunday Business Post last week.

Yesterday marked an escalation of their dispute over fees, with hundreds of pharmacists withdrawing from dispensing medicines under the state drugs schemes, due to what Twomey described as the minister’s ‘‘gross abuse of a dominant position ‘ ‘ and ‘‘disproportionate cuts’’. http://www.expressdelivery.biz.

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