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BPOM cooperates with pharmaceutical companies to verify fake vaccines
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A medicine and health equipment vendor waits for customers in the Pramuka Market on June 27. National Police investigators are still investigating the recent case of fake vaccine distribution. (Antara/Sigid Kurniawan)
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he Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) has joined hands with pharmaceutical companies whose brand names have been illegitimately used to sell fake vaccines in the case recently uncovered by the police.
The government agency will cooperate with the three vaccination producers, namely Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Biofarma, BPOM therapeutic product monitoring director Togi Junice Hutajulu has said.
"The companies will later verify the fake vaccines", he said on Monday, as quoted by Tempo.co.
BPOM continues to uncover more locations across the country where fake vaccines have been found following investigations in response to rising public concerns. The agency had ordered its 32 offices across the country to trace the fake vaccines, Togi added.
So far there are a total of seven locations where the fake vaccines have been found, including in the provinces of Banten, Jakarta and West Java.
Previously, BPOM had found five types of counterfeit vaccines, namely Tuberfullin, Pediacel, Tripacel, Harfix and Biosef, all of which were present in the aforementioned three provinces.
The National Police have detained 15 suspects in the fake vaccines syndicate case. The police’s preliminary investigation has revealed that the fake vaccines have also reached the provinces of Central Java, Yogyakarta and North Sumatra. (liz/rin)
