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When the NABP investigators ordered Zyprexa, Lilly's top-selling antipsychotic, they got something called Telorzan, packaged in a cheap-looking blue box.
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Yet problematic pharmacies continued to advertise on Google, according to Carmen Catizone, NABP's executive director, as well as several other researchers.
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In an emailed response, a Google director of policy at the time, Alana Karen, requested NABP's list of hundreds of problematic pharmacy advertisers.
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Last spring the NABP developed the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Sites program to certify Internet pharmacy practices through additional licensing and inspection criteria.
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In 2003, the NABP wrote a letter to Google warning about advertising from online drug outlets that weren't verified by a NABP screening program.
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Separately, the NABP in 2008 again asked Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to stop illicit online drugstores from advertising on their sites and to replace PharmacyChecker.
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"The FDA doesn't have the resources or the expertise to handle this kind of thing, " said Carmen Catizone, executive director of the National Association of the Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), which represents the state pharmacy boards.
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The organization was "deeply concerned that these rogue Internet sites could be a front for criminals seeking to introduce adulterated medications, counterfeit drugs, or worse, to the American market, " wrote Mary Dickson, the NABP's associate executive director.
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About 96% of Internet drug outlets appeared to be violating pharmacy laws or standards, according to a 2008 study by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, or NABP, a group representing state regulators in the U.S. and Canada.
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The NABP says Google didn't respond.
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