Pfizer Tracking Spiked Supplements With FDA, Enforcement Agencies

Pfizer helps law enforcement and FDA root out marketers of tainted supplements through undercover purchases of products the firm tests. Pfizer’s security team also gathers evidence for criminal enforcement and regulatory actions, but does not bring civil actions against offenders.

Pfizer Inc. hopes law enforcement agencies will build cases on data the firm collects about manufacturers of products sold as supplements but tainted with the active ingredients or analogs of the firm’s Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs.

One component of Pfizer’s strategy is using data gathered for a recently published study the firm funded to point FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations, FBI and local law enforcement toward...

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