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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) is working in partnership with Slimming World as part of the Agency’s wider #FakeMeds Campaign to encourage those wanting to lose weight to turn to safe, legitimate and appropriate routes.
MHRA investigators seize more than 28,000 unlicensed slimming pills in Manchester area.
MHRA launch FakeMeds campaign with warning on dodgy diet pills
A husband and wife from Bootle have today been sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court for the illegal online sale of unlicensed slimming pills.
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.
Enforcement officers from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have seized 23,000 doses of potentially dangerous slimming pills, with an estimated value of £30,000, during a raid on an address in Waterlooville, Hampshire.
Guidance on the safe and effective use of GLP-1 medicines for weight loss and diabetes.
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