More than 2,000 counterfeit weight loss jabs have been confiscated from a factory in Northampton, in what's believed to be the world's largest seizure.

The UK's medicines regulator and police joined forces to smash the illicit facility, which was manufacturing and distributing unlicensed products.

Labels suggested the knock-off pens contained tirzepatide, an ingredient found in Mounjaro.

But Eli Lilly, the company behind this medication, said anyone who bought these jabs on the black market would have "no way of knowing what they actually contain".

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This is the first seizure of its kind in the UK - with raw chemicals, equipment, tens of thousands of empty pens and £20,000 in cash also recovered from the site.

Estimates suggest that the street value of the counterfei

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