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Check if a website selling medicines is ‘not recommended’ by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
People are urged to avoid risky online buys and protect their health, as the MHRA seizes over 4.4 million doses of unlicensed erectile dysfunction medicines in 2025 alone.
Legal requirements for the sale of veterinary medicines on the internet.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines
As many people consider lifestyle changes at the start of the year, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is urging the public to make sure any weight-loss medicines they use are safe, effective and legitimate.
As part of #MedSafetyWeek, the MHRA’s Chief Safety Officer reflects in The Pharmacist on the vital role pharmacists play in keeping medicines and medical devices safe.
Anyone in Northern Ireland selling medicines to the public via a website must still comply with the requirement to apply the EU common logo.
Over two million doses of illegally traded medicines valued at almost £5m seized so far this year.
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 2023.
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