LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s medicines regulator on Friday said it had made the largest single seizure of trafficked weight loss medicines recorded globally, dismantling a factory making thousands of unlicensed weight-loss jabs.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it had seized 2,000 pens labelled as containing tirzepatide and retatrutide – drugs not approved for weight loss in the UK – tens of thousands of empty pens, and raw chemicals.
The agency said the factory in central England was the first of its kind discovered in Britain.
“This is a victory in the fight against the shameless criminals who are putting lives at risk by peddling dangerous and illegal weight loss jabs to make a quick buck,” health minister Wes Streeting said in a statement.
“These unregulated products, made with no regard for safety or quality, posed a major risk to unwitting customers.”
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(Reporting by Sam Tabahriti; editing by William James)
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