Erectile dysfunction medications took in Glengormley

8 April 2011

Large quantities of unlicensed medications have actually been taken by Department of Health authorities during a search of a home in Glengormley.

A man was talked to by department officers about illegally and subsequently providing unlicensed impotence medicines by means of the web.

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 performed 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 medicines can be unsafe.

"These kinds of items being sold, usually online, have actually gone through no quality assurance and there can be no guarantee about their safety.

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