"Drugs that are procured from unverified sources, including preparations that are procured from abroad outside the legal distribution chain, represent a serious risk to health, especially when it comes to biological medicines for which special conditions of storage and transport are prescribed and whose traceability must be ensured, such as the medicine Dysport", points out the Institute for Medicines and Medical Devices
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"Drugs that are procured from unverified sources, including preparations that are procured from abroad outside the legal distribution chain, represent a serious risk to health, especially when it comes to biological medicines for which special conditions of storage and transport are prescribed and whose traceability must be ensured, such as the medicine Dysport", points out the Institute for Medicines and Medical Devices
The Institute confirmed that Dysport, which was obtained illegally and applied to patients who contracted botulism, is one of the drugs for which falsified batches were identified in several countries in previous years.