On Saturday the French economy ministry announced the largest-ever seizure of fake medicines in France and the EU, after French customs officers discovered 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin hidden in a cargo of tea that arrived from China.

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French customs officers have seized 1.2 million doses of counterfeit aspirin from China, the biggest haul of fake medicines ever in France and the EU, the economy ministry announced Saturday.

The goods, seized May 17 in the northwestern port of Le Havre, were hidden in a cargo of tea that arrived from China, the ministry said in a statement. The powder was mostly glucose and contained no active ingredients.

The fake aspirin was to have been sent to a Spanish company based in the Balearic Islands for distribution in the Iberian peninsula, the south of France and French-speaking Africa, the ministry said.

(AFP)

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