The European Medicines Agency
(EMA) is warning healthcare
professionals across the EU to
be aware that vials of the cancer
medicine Herceptin (trastuzumab)
have been tampered with and
re-introduced into supply chains in
some countries.
The vials were thought to have
been stolen from Italy and reintroduced
under false credentials,
with warning signs including batch
numbers and expiry dates that
do not match, and liquid in some
of the vials when Herceptin is a
powder.
None of the falsified product had
been identified at hospital level and
no harm had come to patients, the
EMA reported.
Authorities were investigating, the
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