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Thai Customs Seizes 8,900 Unregistered GLP-1 Injection Pens From a Traveler's Suitcases at Suvarnabhumi Airport

Customs officers at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport found 8,900 weight-loss pens worth more than 5.34 million baht in two suitcases belonging to a Chinese man arriving from Bangladesh on October 31, The Thaiger reported. An airport customs officer said the pens contained GLP-1 injections, which are controlled in Thailand as a special-category drug, and the products were not registered with the Thai FDA; the report did not name the drug. In May, customs seized 137 packs of tirzepatide from another traveler on the same route.