Success of rogue online pharmacies: Sewage study of sildenafil in the Netherlands

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 349, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Venhuis, Bastiaan J ^a   De Voogt, Pim ^b   Emke, Erik ^b   Causanilles, Ana ^b   Keizers, Peter H J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG METABOLITE; ILLICIT DRUG; SILDENAFIL; COUNTERFEIT DRUG; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; SEWAGE; SULFONE;

DRUG DATABASE; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LETTER; MEDICAL SERVICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NETHERLANDS; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHARMACY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT; CHEMISTRY; SEWAGE;

COUNTERFEIT DRUGS; NETHERLANDS; PIPERAZINES; PURINES; SEWAGE; SILDENAFIL CITRATE; SULFONES;

EID: 84903750418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g4317     Document Type: Letter

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