PARIS (Reuters) -
French customs officials have intercepted
a shipment of 224,000 fake Viagra and Cialis anti-impotence
pills worth 2.4 million euros ($3.5 million), the Budget
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said on Monday.

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The copies of the best-selling drugs were found on December
18 during a search at the French capital's main air hub at
Roissy, in a freight cargo on its way to Brazil from India.

“Branded Tablet tadalafil
and Erectalis, each box contained, in
fact, four tablets in the characteristic shape and color of
Viagra or Cialis pills,” Budget Minister Eric Werth's office,
which is also in charge of customs, said in a ed tablets
.

“The tadalafil generic
Pfizer and Eli Lilly, which respectively own
the Viagra and Cialis brands, quickly confirmed the counterfeit
nature of these products and the 224,000 pills were seized,”
Werth's office added.