Switzerland Seizes Bogus Pfizer Pills in Zurich Airport
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Swiss authorities seized more than 1 million fake Pfizer Inc. Xanax anti-anxiety pills at Zurich airport, part of a wider crackdown on counterfeit medicines posing a public-health threat.
Four crates weighing more than 400 kilograms (880 pounds) were intercepted while in transit from China to Egypt and ordered to be destroyed after tests determined the pills contained no active ingredients, Bern-based Swissmedic, the country’s drug regulator, said in a statement today.