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Here's an interesting development (from China Tech News):
China's State Food and Drug Administration has exposed 25 websites that have been involved in illegal selling of medicines.
Wow, good for SFDA. They could use some good press these days. Read on:
According to Zhang Jingli, deputy director of SFDA, these websites have fabricated medical institution names to release fake medicine information and sell fake drugs. Zhang says that SFDA will soon work with the Ministry of Information Industry to check and punish them.
By the end of 2007, China had approved a total of 1257 websites to provide online medicine services and 14 websites to deal with online drug sales. Of those, only seven websites are allowed to sell non-prescription medicines to consumers. Zhang says that consumers can log onto the official website of SFDA to confirm the qualification of those websites and they can report to the local food and drug department once they've found some illegal sellers.
If you read this carefully, you'll see that one government agency, SFDA, has found some bad actors out there. But these sites are not yet down. SFDA "will soon work" with MII to deal with these guys. Methinks that this is a sign of interagency cooperation issues. No surprise – it's not so easy to get a site taken down, and certainly ISPs are not very cooperative.
With the huge amount of illegal activity happening online, notably IP infringing activity, a lot needs to be done to get a system in place whereby sites can be taken down quickly. If government agencies cannot even do this yet, then we have a long way to go.