French Customs seize record fake Viagra haul from China

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By Alex Lennane

11/04/2014

Couples in Belgium will possibly be relieved to hear that 10 tonnes of fake erectile disfunction medicines were found in a container in Le Havre yesterday, posing as tea. The shipment, from China, was on its way to Belgium and also contained fake diarrhoea medicine and aspirin, both of which turned out to be sugar. The containerised shipment was Europe’s largest ever fake drugs haul.

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