Drug Website Fears
22nd Aug 2007
An analysis of around 3000 sites found that medicine was being sold without a prescription online and some were likely to be counterfeit or out of date.
MarkMonitor also found that nearly half of the drugs websites did not safeguard customers personal data.
Charlie Abrahams, from MarkMonitor, said they did not realise the scale of the problem before they did the analysis.
Experts are warning against buying medicines online.
Of 3,160 pharmacies found to be selling one or more of the drugs, only four had a Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site accreditation (a scheme set up by US pharmacy boards) although many others falsely claimed they had Reports the BBC.
According to the BBC, A 10th of the sites advertised the fact that no prescription was required to buy medicines.
Each of the sites had an average of 32,000 visitors daily, which could equate to £2bn in annual sales for the six drugs looked at.
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