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Crackdown Bills Stall After Seattle Company Shut Down for Running Fake Chinese Drugs

Legislation aimed at cracking down on foreign‑origin pharmaceutical drugs and the employment of illegal alien workers has stalled, even as scrutiny intensifies over Mochi Health and its previous distribution of potentially dangerous weight‑loss drugs tied to China.

State records obtained last year by KING 5 showed that components of drugs, including illegal Chinese drugs, sold by the telehealth company were illegally imported from China by a Washington‑based compounding facility, Aequita Pharmacy. The facility allegedly manufactured those ingredients into copycat versions of popular GLP‑1 weight‑loss drugs, including Ozempic and Wegovy.

Former employees told KING 5 that Aequita directed unlicensed workers to compound raw ingredients, including Chinese drugs, imported from China into injectable medications.

“That’s not part of my licensing,” one former employee said he told his manager at the facility. “I immediately was like, ‘No, I can’t do that.’”

Studies have found that drugs manufactured in countries such as China and India carry a 54% higher risk of serious side effects compared with U.S.‑made equivalents.

The Washington State Department of Health shut down Aequita in March of........

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