Several patients reported serious side effects including seizures, authorities say.
Several Austrians have been treated in hospital after using what was believed to be fake weight-loss drug, Ozempic.
This indicated that the drugs "falsely contained insulin" instead of Ozempic's active ingredient, semaglutide, the BASG said.The Austrian Criminal Intelligence Service, the BK, said those affected had received the syringes from a doctor based in Austria.The counterfeit injection pens were coloured a darker blue than the genuine items, it added.
"Ozempic has been increasingly used as a "weight-loss" medication, for which the medicinal product is not approved," it said Last week, the EMA and the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency warned that counterfeit Ozempic injection pens, from suppliers in Austria and Germany, had been identified at wholesalers in the UK and the EU.
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