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UK seizes illegal weight-loss drugs in factory raid
Gulf Today
|October 26, 2025
Britain's medicines regulator said on Friday it had made the world’s largest seizure of unlicenced weight-loss medicines, dismantling a factory that made jabs labelled as containing the ingredient in Eli Lilly's Mounjaro.
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Global pharmaceutical companies and regulators have raised alarms over a surge in counterfeit and unregulated weight-loss drugs, which are being trafficked globally and sold illegally online and through underground networks.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said it had seized 2,000 injection pens labelled as containing tirzepatide - the ingredient in Eli Lilly's Mounjaro and Zepbound - and retatrutide, an experimental obesity drug also made by Eli Lilly, which is still in trials.
Tens of thousands of empty pens were also seized, along with raw chemicals.
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