The ministry’s Senior Director of Pharmaceutical Services, Norhaliza A Halim said raids were also carried at 187 premises selling vitamin C injections during the period, which resulted in the seizure of RM278,202 worth of products.
"Since 2019 until November 2021, the Pharmaceutical Enforcement Division of MOH had received a total of 362 public complaints on strong drugs and vitamin C injections,” she said in a statement on Wednesday . "MOH, through the Pharmacy Enforcement Division, always conducts monitoring and enforcement to ensure health products and medicines marketed in Malaysia are registered with the Drug Control Authority before they sold to the public," she said.
"A total of 19,862 advertisement products have been notified to be taken down since last year until this month, while 1,665 links on social media and overseas e-commerce platforms related to strong drugs and vitamin C injections were forwarded to platform administrators for the content to be removed.
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