Crackdown On Viagra And Sex Performance Aids

[george]

FDA confiscates many sexual performance aids

Food and Drug Administration officials examine some of the sex toys smuggled in from abroad. — APICHART JINAKUL

BANGKOK: -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confiscated a large amount of sexual performance aids, mostly made in China, and will give itself more authority to curb smuggling of the products. The FDA seized the goods last month but showed them to the press yesterday along with drugs from Sri Lanka and Germany, all smuggled through Don Muang airport.

The office confiscated 2,400 tablets of sexual performance drugs, 140 bottles of Spanish fly used as sleeping pills, 26,400 slimming pills, 320 bottles of blemish cream, 2,800 sex toys and unregistered medicine. The total was worth more than 1.3 million baht. The authorities also took legal action against 68 smugglers, including one Thai, FDA chief Pakdee Pothisiri said. The illegal products were distributed around Yaowarat.

In a bid to prevent smuggling of sex toys and other sex enhancement products, the office wants to list them as non-commercial medical equipment so officials could immediately take action.

At present the agency cannot seize the products without cooperation from the Consumer Protection Office because they are not listed as medical tools.

People convicted of smuggling non-registered medicines can be fined up to 5,000 baht or sentenced to three years in prison or both.

--Bangkok Post 2006-03-17

[chuchok]

The illegal products were distributed around Yaowarat

Those bloody chinese again! tsk tsk.

[Maejo Man]

That looks like a mountain of "pleasure" I wonder where they will all end up

[Thaising]

It will killed our little brother seeking wonders with all these fake, .

[PREM-R]

It will killed our little brother seeking wonders with all these fake, .

In English please

[Toni]

FDA confiscates many sexual performance aids

Food and Drug Administration officials examine some of the sex toys smuggled in from abroad. — APICHART JINAKUL

BANGKOK: -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confiscated a large amount of sexual performance aids, mostly made in China, and will give itself more authority to curb smuggling of the products. The FDA seized the goods last month but showed them to the press yesterday along with drugs from Sri Lanka and Germany, all smuggled through Don Muang airport.

The office confiscated 2,400 tablets of sexual performance drugs, 140 bottles of Spanish fly used as sleeping pills, 26,400 slimming pills, 320 bottles of blemish cream, 2,800 sex toys and unregistered medicine. The total was worth more than 1.3 million baht. The authorities also took legal action against 68 smugglers, including one Thai, FDA chief Pakdee Pothisiri said. The illegal products were distributed around Yaowarat.

In a bid to prevent smuggling of sex toys and other sex enhancement products, the office wants to list them as non-commercial medical equipment so officials could immediately take action.

At present the agency cannot seize the products without cooperation from the Consumer Protection Office because they are not listed as medical tools.

People convicted of smuggling non-registered medicines can be fined up to 5,000 baht or sentenced to three years in prison or both.

--Bangkok Post 2006-03-17

"140 bottles of Spanish fly used as sleeping pills"

not a very good quality! The lady will not be very pleased with these

[astral]

What a waste of time!

Part of the "moral" cleansing..................

[Pattaya_Fox]

What a waste of time!

Part of the "moral" cleansing..................

Looks as though the moral cleansing cops have had fun.....I assume that the coloured toys have been inflated!!.......and that the cops are now in deep sleep thanks to the Spanish Fly

[Dragonman]

Ah I see Thailand is following some States in America where sex toys can only be obtained on prescription You face 1 year in prison. Must be due to somebody's doctorate in Criminal Justice there.

[limbos]

It's all female cops in the picture, wonder what they're thinking. 5555555

[PeaceBlondie]

The title of the thread mentions Viagra, but the text of the press release doesn't say that. I'll bet "sex performance drugs" are herbs like ginseng, the dust of animal tusks, and anything they call "Spanish fly."

Hopefully the Prime Minister's cabinet, and you and I, can still buy Viagra and Kamagra without a prescription.

Giddy' up, little horsey....

[Artisi]

Was "crackdown" intended as a pun

[marquess]

More stupidity on the part of an increasingly puritanical government.

[udon]

A good example of the govt's priorities....

Nothing better to do!

[jumbo]

In understood that the 'Pubic' Health Minister banned sales of these enhancers at all ministry premises throughout the country as well,

J

[britainmal]

Well, from the picture I see mostly Dildos. Exporting Dildos is crime?

[ChiangMaiThai]

This country never ceases to amaze me. You can buy sex in every town and that is fine. But don't you dare insert that piece of rubber!

[britainmal]

Well, from the picture I see mostly Dildos. Exporting Dildos is crime?

I think all the lesbians in Thailand should go and protest this unfair treatment against them.

[sierra01]

Blemish cream is a sexual performance aid?

[Hermano Lobo]

All the nice girls love a candle

even though it's got a wick

because there's something about a candle

that reminds them of a d........

Slips in easy

Nice 'n greasy

[ThaiPauly]

That looks like a mountain of "pleasure" I wonder where they will all end up

I reckon they will end UP where they are suppossed to

Any woman walking around BK with a big smile on her face is obviously marriied to a Policeman

[britmaveric]

I'm sure alot of the missing product will re-appear at the nearest stall closest to you. Dosh to be had here, plain and simple.

[Ijustwannateach]

Hmmm... reminds me of a few years back in Japan- when Viagra came out, it was passed through the drug approval bureaucratic apparatus in RECORD time, less than a year- even though birth control pills had been languishing in purgatory for over a decade... something to do with who's making the decisions (and in a darker way, the fact that Japanese doctors make so much money off abortions, since Japanese don't like to use condoms).

Somehow I can't see the Viagra part of the crackdown continuing for too long....

"Steven"

[Maejo Man]

Well, from the picture I see mostly Dildos. Exporting Dildos is crime?

No it isn't, but importing them is You just try to get one through the X-ray at customs, then stand back and watch the red faces

[game4shame]

a congregation of dildos in one picture..........cue MPs group photo gags!!!

[Cool Water Palace]

I've had a vibrator, etc, in my checked baggage more than once, and it was not bothered about, if it showed up on the xray machine. Maybe the customs officer thought it was a tube of rolos.

[Maejo Man]

I've had a vibrator, etc, in my checked baggage more than once

....and what, pray tell, was a fine upstanding member of TV doing with such a contrivance?

[britmaveric]

I've had a vibrator, etc, in my checked baggage more than once

....and what, pray tell, was a fine upstanding member of TV doing with such a contrivance?

Buggering himself!!!

[Maejo Man]

Buggering himself!!!

[astral]

It's all female cops in the picture, wonder what they're thinking. 5555555

Waiting for the male cops to try the Viagra.................

PS Cialis is much better.

The effect lasts longer.