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To: HiSpeed who wrote (4748)	8/5/1998 12:50:00 PM
From: Anthony Wong	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9523

Thai Authorities Deny Viagra Counterfeiting; Raid Pharmacies August 05, 1998 8:47 AM BANGKOK (AP)--Thai authorities denied Wednesday that the country has become a Viagra counterfeiting center, but meanwhile raided three pharmacies illegally selling the anti-impotence drug. The owners of the pharmacies were arrested and face up to five years imprisonment for trafficking in illegal substances, police said. A total of 157 Viagra tablets were seized. Thailand has tentatively approved Viagra as safe but final permission to import and sell it has not yet been granted by the country's Food and Drug Administration. A black market has developed for the drug, with a single pill selling for about 1,200 baht ($1=40 baht). Thai media reported this week that Thai counterfeiters are producing fake Viagra pills composed primarily of flour, selling them for the same price as the real ones. Rawiwan Preedisanit, director of the FDA's Drug Control Division, called the assertions false and said it's unproven that the fake Viagra exists. The Bangkok Post newspaper cited Mongkol na Songkhla, secretary general of the FDA, as saying Tuesday that other countries were a source of phony Viagra entering Thailand.