{"id":111598,"date":"2021-06-10T17:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T11:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=111598"},"modified":"2021-06-10T17:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T11:50:29","slug":"operation-pangea-of-interpol-targets-counterfeit-and-illicit-health-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-pangea-of-interpol-targets-counterfeit-and-illicit-health-products\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Operation Pangea&#8221; of Interpol targets counterfeit and illicit health products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/interpol-to-hold-general-assembly-in-india-in-2022\/\"><strong>Interpol<\/strong><\/a> has conducted <strong>Operation Pangea XIV <\/strong>to target the sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines and medical products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Operation Pangea:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Operation Pangea<\/strong> is an international effort to target the online sale of counterfeit and illicit health products. It also aims to raise public awareness of the potential dangers of buying medicines online.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The first time <\/strong>Operation Pangea was conducted was in 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Led by: <\/strong>The operation is coordinated by INTERPOL. It involved police, customs and health regulatory authorities from 92 countries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India: <\/strong>Indian agencies also participated in the operation. The<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/central-bureau-of-investigation-cbi-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Central Bureau of Investigation(CBI)<\/a> is the nodal body<\/span> for Interpol in the country.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact: <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The operation resulted in <\/strong>around 1 lakh web links including websites and online marketplaces being closed down or removed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, <\/strong>more than half of all medical devices seized during the operation were fake and unauthorized COVID-19 tests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Read Also :-<a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/report-card-of-demonetization-after-one-year\/\">Report card of demonetization after one year\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/over-1-lakh-web-links-removed-in-global-crackdown-on-illegal-medical-trade\/article34762765.ece\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Interpol has conducted Operation Pangea XIV to target the sale of counterfeit and illicit medicines and medical products. About Operation Pangea: Operation Pangea is an international effort to target the online sale of counterfeit and illicit health products. It also aims to raise public awareness of the potential dangers of buying&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/operation-pangea-of-interpol-targets-counterfeit-and-illicit-health-products\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Operation Pangea&#8221; of Interpol targets counterfeit and illicit health products<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,164,9],"tags":[1420],"class_list":["post-111598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704255582},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}