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Chinese Regulators close websites selling diabetes drugs illegally on the Internet. Counterfeit medications sold online to unsuspecting diabetics for treatment.

China’s State Food and Drug Administration announced on October 14th, 2009, that it had shut down five websites in that country that were selling medications, drugs and diabetes treatments without authorization. The websites are as follows: merckdx99.com, bjtnbzl.com, jksohu.com, mxmnw.com and merckchina99.com.

These websites were never authorized by China to sell any type of medications online, and have been shut down. Additionally, China’s SFDA has canceled the license of Lida branded Lida Weigu Jian Capsule.

The above websites marketed their products using various aliases that included: Merck Serono China, China Renhe Diabetes Research Institute, China Clinical Medicine Association, Renji Diabetes Research Institute, Beijing Merck Serono Company and China Facioplegia Recovery Website. None of the above companies have official ties to the pharmaceutical companies used in their names.

The medications marketed by these companies included Moxue Xianfu’an, Moke Huoyi Jiang Tang Tablets, Huoyi Shenjin Tablets, Moxue Meiluoxin and Moxue Mianfu’an. China has been cracking down on illegal drug sales made over the Internet by unauthorized online marketers and handing out harsh penalties to those who violate the law. Although many of these appear to be legitimate prescription and non-prescription medications, many of them are either counterfeit or do not contain the ingredients they are supposed to. This can be especially dangerous for diabetes sufferers who may think that they are taking legitimate medications, but are in fact, not getting the treatment they need.

The SFDA maintains an English-language website at http://eng.sfda.gov.cn/eng/. The SFDA urges any Diabetics who purchase drugs online from China to check their website to verify the legal status of the drug company they are doing business with. The SFDA also regularly publishes the domain names of illegal and counterfeit drug websites that have been investigated by the agency.

Counterfeit diabetes medications are becoming an increasing problem, as the Internet has given counterfeiters easy access to unsuspecting consumers who are looking to save money on diabetes medications, treatments and test supplies. Most of these fake drugs are manufactured in China, Southeastern Asia, India and Pakistan. Since these counterfeits are inherently illegal, there are no assurances that what you order contains the ingredients on the label. In fact, many of these medications are later found to contain substances that are potentially harmful to diabetes patients, such as sugar, sodium and rat poison.

If you have any doubts as to the legitimacy of the diabetes drug you are taking, be sure to contact the manufacturer whose name appears on the product’s label. They can generally verify if codes and batch numbers on the packaging are legitimate, or not.

[Editors Note: Although a handful of these websites may have been shut down, even by the Chinese government's own estimates, there may well be thousands of these counterfeit drug websites still out there; and that's just in a single country. Needless to say, if you are thinking of purchasing either prescription or non-prescription medications to treat diabetes, diabetes test supplies or other drugs, you would do best to only do business with providers in your own country that you are familiar with. In fact, ordering any type of prescription drugs from overseas without the proper paperwork is most likely a violation of U.S. Customs laws. Unfortunately, treating diabetes is an expensive proposition, any way you look at it. There are no shortcuts.]