Miami, FL, May 14 - Fifty million packages of pharmaceuticals from other countries come into the U.S. through the mail. Much of the pharmaceuticals are unapproved, counterfeit, or fraudulent which puts American consumers at serious health risk.

Friday, the Food and Drug Administration announced results of a week long drug inspection blitz at the Miami International Mail Facility, located at 11698 NW 25th Street in West Miami-Dade.

The FDA, along with Customs and Border Patrol and the U.S. Postal Service conducted "Operation Safeguard", which had dozens of agents poring through piles of packages filled with illegal pharmaceutical drugs, dietary supplements and home remedies mailed from foreign countries.

The drugs are often purchased over the Internet which makes it difficult to determine whether they have safe ingredients, accurate dosages or correct expiration dates.  " If we don't know how they were manufactured, if we haven't had the opportunity to review them for safety and efficacy, people may be injecting drugs into their bodies without any assurance of their safety or effectiveness," said David Elder of the FDA.

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