LONDON: Britain’s medicines regulator on Friday said it had made the largest single seizure of trafficked weight loss medicines recorded globally, dismantling a factory making thousands of unlicensed weight-loss jabs. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it had seized 2,000 pens labelled as containing tirzepatide and retatrutide — drugs not approved for weight loss in the UK — tens of thousands of empty pens, and raw chemicals.

Unlicensed – and potentially deadly –products seized in crackdown on illegal trade in weight-loss medicines

LONDON: Britain’s medicines regulator on Friday said it had made the largest single seizure of trafficked weight loss medicines recorded globally, dismantling a factory making…

The seizure in the UK is believed to be the biggest crackdown on the illicit jabs worldwide

The first illicit production facility for weight loss medicine found in the UK is dismantled.