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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent

More than £250,000 of counterfeit weight-loss jab products seized in factory raid

A woman preparing a dose of a weight-loss injection.
A woman preparing a dose of a weight-loss injection. Photograph: Jon Challicom/Getty Images

A factory in Northampton manufacturing counterfeit weight-loss jabs has been raided and dismantled by a government agency.

Tens of thousands of empty weight-loss pens ready to be filled, raw chemical ingredients, and more than 2,000 unlicensed retatrutide and tirzepatide pens were seized in the raid, conducted by officers from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), supported by Northamptonshire police.

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