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France moves to shut down rogue sites selling fake weight-loss drugs

The French Medicines Agency (ANSM) has stepped up its crackdown on websites pushing fraudulent anti-obesity products, tightening controls after earlier measures to curb the booming trade in bogus online treatments. Getty Images - Lorado

French regulators have intensified their crackdown on the booming online trade in illicit weight-loss medicines, targeting platforms and sellers pushing unlicensed anti-obesity products.

The French Medicines Agency (ANSM) has taken further action against websites offering products marketed as anti-obesity treatments, following on from an initial swathe of measures taken to stop fraudulent, on-line practices.

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