A massive UK raid produced the single largest seizure of unlicensed weight loss drugs across the globe, authorities announced.
Thousands of knockoff pens were confiscated by enforcement agents for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or the MHRA.
The agency “dismantled a major illicit manufacturing facility, making and distributing unlicensed weight-loss jabs, during a raid on a warehouse in Northampton,” reads a Friday press statement on the raid.
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The drugs had a street value of over $300,000. facebook/mhragovuk
Agents spent two days searching the building, and “seized tens of thousands of empty weight loss pens ready to be filled, raw chemical ingredients, and more than 2,000 unlicensed retatrutide and tirzepatide pens awaiting dispatch to customers,” the statement explained.
Tirzepatide is sold as Zepbound in the US,
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