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FDA Expects Importer of Counterfeit Alli from China to be Sentenced

The Food and Drug Administration expects that Shengyang Zhou, aka “Tom”, age 31, of Kunming, Yunnan, China, who pled guilty in January to charges of trafficking and attempting to traffic counterfeit versions of the pharmaceutical weight loss drug known as…

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Alli, will be sentenced on May 6, 2011. The FDA states that the counterfeit drugs contained Sibutramine, which can cause high blood pressure and stroke. The counterfeit drugs were imported by Zhou from China and sold over the internet at www.2daydietshopping.com.