Cincinnati CBP seized $3.5 million in counterfeit pharma

[fatbegone]

"During a week-long joint operation between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CBP officers inspected hundreds of boxes containing possible counterfeit and unapproved medications... During the operation, CBP officers intercepted shipments containing counterfeit Ozempic, Semaglutide, Retatrutide, and Tirzepatide, injections in demand for positive results in weight loss."

I like how they listed ozempic and semaglutide separately, as if they're two different drugs. 😆

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cincinnati-cbp-seized-35-million-counterfeit-pharma

 

[SassyPants]

"During a week-long joint operation between U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Food and Drug Administration, CBP officers inspected hundreds of boxes containing possible counterfeit and unapproved medications... During the operation, CBP officers intercepted shipments containing counterfeit Ozempic, Semaglutide, Retatrutide, and Tirzepatide, injections in demand for positive results in weight loss."

I like how they listed ozempic and semaglutide separately, as if they're two different drugs. 😆

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cincinnati-cbp-seized-35-million-counterfeit-pharma

Article going on about keeping people safe and then goes on to mention the value of seized drugs totaling 3 million+ 🙄

 

[vewdew34]

Lets see how long it will last, but yet Fantanyl still makes in to the streets, but lets not worry about that, we rather kill than help people.

 

[Morbius]

The USA has always been faster to hurt its own people than help them.

The list of highest incarceration per capita summarizes our issues neatly.

• El Salvador: 1,659 per 100,000
• Cuba: 794 per 100,000
• Rwanda: 620 per 100,000
• Turkmenistan: 576 per 100,000
• United States: 541 per 100,000 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

On the low end...

• Japan: 36 per 100,000
• Germany: 67 per 100,000
• Norway: 53 per 100,000

There are two ways to look at this information and neither is an uplifting conclusion.

If we believe that a nation like Norway has a reasonable incarceration rate, why is America's 10x higher? Ten times!

If our 10x rate is reasonable then we are a nation of monsters.

On the other hand, if Americans aren't that different than Norwegians, then we have a massive over-policing problem.

Even if the truth is somewhere in between, say Norway is under-policing by several times, the USA still looks insane.

If grey GLP-1 meds start taking real money out of pharma's pocket, today's news could be just the beginning.

Be careful. There is a large system out to get you. Don't be the easiest target.

 

[byefatlicia]

"Had all these items been legitimate, the combined value of all the products would have been over $3.53 million."

But because they weren't "legitimate" the actual cost was more like $500,000. Just guessing...

 

[AndyPanda]

"Had all these items been legitimate, the combined value of all the products would have been over $3.53 million."

But because they weren't "legitimate" the actual cost was more like $500,000. Just guessing...

Yes! Someone posted something about a seizure the other day about HGH and when I saw the alleged value it was even further off than the GLP1s. Government agencies playing these silly numbers games affirm what drugs work and which ones don’t by stating an absurd value. Especially for something that has been available in generic for long periods of time.

 

[indolent]

"Had all these items been legitimate, the combined value of all the products would have been over $3.53 million."

But because they weren't "legitimate" the actual cost was more like $500,000. Just guessing...

I get <$55K total street value, based on 100% 15 mg weekly dosing of tirz, using the cost per mg of a recent jumbo-vials group buy purchase I made.

I wonder what the total staff/system/storage cost of this bust was? Probably around $3.53 million!

 

[byefatlicia]

All this recent activity makes me wonder who's getting a little somethin somethin from Lilly's petty cash...

 

[rsmith]

"Had all these items been legitimate, the combined value of all the products would have been over $3.53 million."

But because they weren't "legitimate" the actual cost was more like $500,000. Just guessing...

Allow me translate into common English:

"If the buyer would have bought these items from EL, it would have cost 3.53 million. However, since the buyer wasn't getting ripped off by EL, actual cost is $30,000, including shipping."

 

[MsGizmo]

"Had all these items been legitimate, the combined value of all the products would have been over $3.53 million."

But because they weren't "legitimate" the actual cost was more like $500,000. Just guessing...

Well .. let's consider it .. according to the article it was 54,843 products so the average price would be $64. But considering this, it just shows how much money is on the line for the pharma companies. Let's say that they lose 1 million customers to the grey market .. each one would have been a legal customer who is paying $500 a month for a product that costs them $50 (I'm being generous to them) that means that they are losing $5.4 billion per year. Yeah we all know that their profits are much higher than that .. more than enough profit to be able to bribe all the right people to spur them into action. More than enough to prevent our own government from acting for our benefit and outlaw the vultures from the price gouging that they do in the US.