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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), working with law enforcement partners, seized more than 15.5 million doses of illegally traded medicines with a street value of more than £30 million during 202…

• Updated: 30 January 2024

Three men have been sentenced to a total of three years at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the illegal sale and supply online of prescription-only medicines and controlled Class B and Class C drugs with a str…

• Updated: 11 December 2023

Fake, potentially harmful Ozempic and Saxenda pens have been found in the UK: you should only access these medicines via a medical prescription. 

• Updated: 26 October 2023

People and businesses are invited to share their views on how to make non-surgical cosmetic procedures safer as thousands complain of ‘botched’ procedures.

• Updated: 2 September 2023

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) seized a quantity of suspected unlicensed medical products following coordinated raids at three residential and six business pr…

• Updated: 13 July 2023

Kieron Banks (34) was sentenced today at the Nightingale Court in Wolverhampton for the illegal possession and intent to supply prescription-only medication valued at over £2m following investigations by the Medicines and He…

• Updated: 5 June 2023

The owner of a medicines wholesale business was sentenced yesterday at Southwark Crown Court to 20 weeks imprisonment, suspended for 12 months and community service

• Updated: 19 October 2022

A joint enforcement notice warns all organisations offering Kenalog as a hayfever treatment to stop advertising it on social media or website advertising

• Updated: 4 August 2022

Officers from the MHRA have seized large quantities of illegally traded medicines and medical devices in an Interpol week of action known as "Operation Pangea"

• Updated: 20 July 2022

The MHRA, NIHR, HRA and other organisations across the UK are working together to bring about changes which will drive up standards in health and social care research.

• Updated: 11 March 2022

These principles are intended to lay the foundation for developing good machine learning practices (GMLP) and will help guide future growth in this rapidly progressing field.

• Updated: 27 October 2021

A personal trainer was sentenced today to 31 months in jail for selling and supplying unlicensed and prescription medicines, together with Anabolic steroids, to the public.

• Updated: 28 May 2021

It is suspected that the pills were being sold through illegally operating websites

• Updated: 10 March 2021

Balkeet Singh Khaira sold hundreds of thousands of Class C drugs from his mother's pharmacy

• Updated: 2 March 2021

MHRA Chief Executive Dr June Raine explains the process behind the Agency's approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine

• Updated: 8 December 2020

A convicted fugitive faces the confiscation of £1.4 million in prime assets by the Crown, following a hearing at Southwark Crown Court today.

• Updated: 5 June 2020

Lynda Scammell, Senior Enforcement Advisor at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) today warned the public about medicines and other medical products being sold online claiming to treat or prevent C…

• Updated: 7 May 2020

A man and a woman who sold breast cancer and erectile dysfunction medicines illegally online appeared at Birmingham Crown Court.

• Updated: 6 April 2020

The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) took part in the annual global coordinated operation to tackle the illegal online sale of medicines and medical devices.

• Updated: 19 March 2020

Following an investigation by the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) a man from north London has been sentenced to 6 years in prison at Croydon Crown Court.

• Updated: 27 January 2020