A person from New South Wales has been issued 15 infringement notices worth a total of $39,960 by The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) for the alleged importation of the prescription-only medicines, ivermectin and doxycycline.
It is alleged that the individual, who did not have a valid prescription, nor the authority or an exemption to import the medicines, brought in over 2,500 ivermectin tablets and nearly 10,000 doxycycline capsules over the course of a single month.
This quantity far exceeds what is allowable under the Personal Importation Scheme, and additionally, at the time of import, the medicines were not listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG).
The TGA has recently warned consumers over fake ivermectin, and strongly advised against self-medicating and self-dosing with the anti-parasitic treatment, following several studies demonstrating that the medicine is ineffective against COVID-19 (PD 31 Mar).
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