Nearly 40 people were arrested in connection to a counterfeiting ring in China accused of producing millions of fake condoms with brand-names familiar to many Americans, including Durex.
Police confiscated over 4.6 million packaged counterfeit condoms and another 1,100 pounds of unpackaged materials at the production facility in China’s Fuijian province. Dozens of workers were arrested knee deep in cheap oil lubricants and fake rubbers.
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The ring was busted after a police officer found the ultra-cheap condoms on sale in a Chinese Internet marketplace. Most of the condoms were reportedly sold on the Internet, according to ABC News.
“When we tested those condoms, we found that they are poor quality, can burst in the course of sexual activity, and have holes which expose the users to unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease,” Thomas Amedzra, head of drug enforcement at the Ghanaian Food and Drug Authority (FDA), told the Guardian.
Calls to the CDC, the National Center for HIV and STD Prevention and Reckitt Benckiser, the parent company of Durex, were unreturned as of press time, and there is no indication any of the condoms were sold in the U.S.
The best way to ensure you are buying the real deal, the BBC reports, is to purchase condoms from a reliable retailer in person, rather than online.
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