Eastern European Supermarket fined over prescription medicine sales

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An East European supermarket chain has been fined £800, plus costs, for illegally selling prescription medicines from its Ballymena, Belfast and Lisburn stores.

The Department of Health seized seventy-four different medicine types and over 2 000 doses 

found on open sale in the three 'Polita' stores, last October.

The illegal medicines were of Polish origin and included those for treating infections and for pain relief.

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