Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 September 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Role and Functions: Discussion with Irish Medicines Board

10:35 am

Mr. Pat O'Mahony:

The issue of the availability of and access to counterfeit goods via the web is hugely important. We have an enforcement team which does a variety of work across the regulated and unregulated sectors and they put a great deal of time and energy into this area. We are constantly seizing product and have built up strong relations with Revenue Commissioners customs officers. We know that products are still coming into the market that we are not seeing; we are seeing only a part of it. We seize thousands of tablets every year.

The recent coverage on the injectable tanning product is very concerning. We warned about that two years ago and again recently. We were aware that the story was brewing again. A small number of people are using it. They are putting themselves-----

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