0:00:02 > 0:00:06Welcome to a world where nothing is quite as it seems.
0:00:06 > 0:00:08Welcome to Fake Britain.
0:00:20 > 0:00:24Get down! Get down! Put your hands behind your back now!
0:00:24 > 0:00:29It's just an ordinary house. It could be anywhere in the country,
0:00:29 > 0:00:33but this is the Fake Britain house and it's filled with fakes.
0:00:33 > 0:00:36You may not know it, but your home could be too.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40In this series, we'll be investigating the criminals trying
0:00:40 > 0:00:46to get their hands on your cash by using fraud, forgeries and fakery.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50And I'll be showing you how you can avoid being taken for a ride.
0:00:54 > 0:00:58Today, on Fake Britain, the tragic story of Cheznye Emmons,
0:00:58 > 0:01:03the 23-year-old fatally poisoned by fake gin.
0:01:03 > 0:01:07The gin was like no other gin that I've ever seen before.
0:01:07 > 0:01:10It would kill anybody that drank it.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14With exclusive footage filmed for Fake Britain,
0:01:14 > 0:01:16we follow her father, as he turns investigator,
0:01:16 > 0:01:19to track down more of the killer counterfeit booze
0:01:19 > 0:01:23and warn other travellers of its dangers.
0:01:23 > 0:01:26I'm gutted, really, because this could kill somebody else's
0:01:26 > 0:01:28child and they're still selling it.
0:01:28 > 0:01:32And what's really in your lamb curry?
0:01:32 > 0:01:37We reveal the extraordinary level of food fakery across the UK.
0:01:37 > 0:01:38After the horse meat incident,
0:01:38 > 0:01:41I would expect all suppliers to be whiter than white at the minute.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43This is obviously not the case.
0:01:43 > 0:01:45This is the police. Could you open the door please?
0:01:45 > 0:01:47And the crackdown on fake pharmaceuticals.
0:01:47 > 0:01:52Suspected dangerous medicines being sold from a suburban house.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55All of this stuff we'll have to send off to the lab to get analysed to see
0:01:55 > 0:01:57what it actually contains.
0:02:02 > 0:02:05It looks just like a bottle of gin, doesn't it?
0:02:05 > 0:02:08Maybe not a brand you'd recognise and possibly a bit cheap
0:02:08 > 0:02:12looking, but the sort of thing you could buy on holiday.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16However, what's inside this bottle isn't gin at all.
0:02:16 > 0:02:19It's a fake. And it's lethal.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23And drinking this stuff had tragic consequences for one young woman
0:02:23 > 0:02:288,000 miles away from her home in Essex.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Cheznye Emmons was a bright,
0:02:30 > 0:02:34bubbly 23-year-old beauty therapist from Southend.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38She set off on what promised to be an unforgettable trip through
0:02:38 > 0:02:41Asia with her boyfriend Joe.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44She hadn't done anything like this before.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47She'd really been looking forward to this.
0:02:49 > 0:02:55She was going to look at the volcano and also the orang-utan sanctuary.
0:02:55 > 0:02:59And she was saying that she was having a lovely time
0:02:59 > 0:03:04and was really enjoying it and met lots of friends.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07Cheznye was in the rainforest town of Bukit Lawang
0:03:07 > 0:03:12in Indonesia, but then mum Pam received a phone call from
0:03:12 > 0:03:17Cheznye's boyfriend, Joe, saying that Cheznye had become very sick.
0:03:17 > 0:03:22She was in hospital, in intensive care.
0:03:22 > 0:03:26I just thought that probably she'd been out drinking too much and
0:03:26 > 0:03:31she hadn't felt well, so I wasn't initially too worried about it.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34Cheznye had been drinking.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37She, Joe and a friend had bought some cheap gin,
0:03:37 > 0:03:43branded Mansion House, from the local shop to make some punch.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47But all three had gone home sick and spent the next day vomiting.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51From the bottle's design, it looked like a well-established brand,
0:03:51 > 0:03:55but it wasn't and the gin inside was fake.
0:03:55 > 0:03:59It was water mixed with the deadly solvent methanol,
0:03:59 > 0:04:04a cheap alternative to alcohol and more commonly found in antifreeze.
0:04:04 > 0:04:08They'd gone to sleep and when Cheznye woke up,
0:04:08 > 0:04:15she said she couldn't see, she said that Joe was just like a shadow.
0:04:15 > 0:04:17She couldn't make out any of his features
0:04:17 > 0:04:22and so they decided that they'd get her in the car quick.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28They was walking to the car, Cheznye actually collapsed.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32Joe said the last thing she actually said to him was,
0:04:32 > 0:04:36"I really want a cup of tea." She used to like her tea.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37And he said that was it.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43When she arrived in the hospital in Medan
0:04:43 > 0:04:49and she got into the cubicle area and she went into a seizure.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52Cheznye's condition deteriorated quickly.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55Boyfriend Joe called her mum and dad again.
0:04:55 > 0:04:59When he called the second time and said that she was in a coma,
0:04:59 > 0:05:05that was really a shock. He said they'd said...
0:05:05 > 0:05:08The only thing he could understand
0:05:08 > 0:05:12was they'd said that she was brain dead.
0:05:12 > 0:05:17And that's really when it sort of hit me how serious it actually was.
0:05:17 > 0:05:23I was just sort of shocked. I just sort of went into...
0:05:23 > 0:05:28Don't know, sort of like a dream state, I suppose.
0:05:28 > 0:05:32I just let out a scream, going, "No, no, no!"
0:05:34 > 0:05:38The family arranged to fly out to be by Cheznye's side.
0:05:39 > 0:05:44They arrived in Indonesia and made straight for the hospital.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49I've never seen anybody on a life-support machine before
0:05:49 > 0:05:51and she just looked beautiful.
0:05:51 > 0:05:56She looked brown, she was a beautiful kid,
0:05:56 > 0:06:00and she had a lovely suntan, she looked gorgeous.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04It was the weirdest,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07strangest thing I think I've ever encountered in my life.
0:06:09 > 0:06:11When people say comas,
0:06:11 > 0:06:17you sort of imagine you can come out of comas, so we were sort of hoping
0:06:17 > 0:06:20more along those lines that it would be something that she would
0:06:20 > 0:06:22come out of.
0:06:24 > 0:06:28But Cheznye's situation was much worse than they had imagined.
0:06:29 > 0:06:33The fake gin had attacked her central nervous system, acidifying
0:06:33 > 0:06:38the blood, restricting oxygen supply and causing major organ failure.
0:06:38 > 0:06:44They showed us like a polygraph. It was completely flat, wasn't it?
0:06:44 > 0:06:46Yeah.
0:06:46 > 0:06:50Basically, her brain was dead. Her brain stem was dead.
0:06:50 > 0:06:53And there was nothing else you could do.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57You know, I tried to...
0:06:57 > 0:07:00Sounds strange, but I tried to pinch her, I was shouting in her ear,
0:07:00 > 0:07:05touching her eyes, to try and get some sort of movement, just anything,
0:07:05 > 0:07:11just a flicker, just a twitch, and there was just nothing there.
0:07:11 > 0:07:15It was just horrific. Nothing there at all.
0:07:15 > 0:07:18The family was told that Cheznye wouldn't recover
0:07:18 > 0:07:22and were faced with the prospect of turning off her life-support machine.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Although I was hoping,
0:07:28 > 0:07:33I did feel that she wasn't going to be coming home.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37There was no other choice, just do what we had to do, you know
0:07:37 > 0:07:39what I mean.
0:07:39 > 0:07:46The hardest thing that anyone or any parent could ever do, ever. Just...
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Just didn't seem fair.
0:07:52 > 0:07:58Coming up - with 100,000 Brits visiting Indonesia every year,
0:07:58 > 0:08:01Brent Emmons travels back to the country to see
0:08:01 > 0:08:05whether local shops are still selling the fake spirits.
0:08:05 > 0:08:07This is Russian roulette.
0:08:07 > 0:08:10They're potentially selling a bottle of poison to somebody.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20This is a lamb curry. This is a beef curry.
0:08:20 > 0:08:23Lamb. Beef. Got it? Simple, isn't it?
0:08:23 > 0:08:25But as we've discovered,
0:08:25 > 0:08:28some British curry houses are finding that distinction
0:08:28 > 0:08:34rather hard to make and it's you and I, curry lovers, who are losing out.
0:08:38 > 0:08:42From baltis to pasandas, dhansaks to tikka masalas,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45curries are one of the nation's best loved dishes.
0:08:45 > 0:08:4923 million Brits tuck into one every month.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52But in the wake of the horse meat scandal,
0:08:52 > 0:08:56how can we know what we're ordering is exactly what we're getting?
0:08:56 > 0:08:58Lamb is one of the most expensive meats
0:08:58 > 0:09:01and Trading Standards have raised concerns that some
0:09:01 > 0:09:04restaurants are secretly substituting the tasty
0:09:04 > 0:09:08chunks of lamb in their dishes for something a bit cheaper.
0:09:08 > 0:09:10We decided to investigate for ourselves.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13We hit two curry hot spots to find
0:09:13 > 0:09:16out what's really in your lamb curry.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23We began our masala-thon in Yorkshire.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26We sent two researchers to Wakefield, Calderdale
0:09:26 > 0:09:30and Bradford to buy five lamb curries.
0:09:31 > 0:09:34Further south, they hit the streets of east London,
0:09:34 > 0:09:38home to Brick Lane, southern England's curry mecca.
0:09:38 > 0:09:40They picked up five more meaty feasts,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43all supposed to contain lamb.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45The curries were then bagged and tagged
0:09:45 > 0:09:47and then it was time for testing.
0:09:50 > 0:09:55Our curries were brought to Worcestershire Scientific Services.
0:09:55 > 0:09:58The scientists here are food examination experts,
0:09:58 > 0:10:01responsible for analysing thousands of meat
0:10:01 > 0:10:03samples during the horse meat scandal.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Now it was time to find out
0:10:07 > 0:10:10if there was something suspect in our takeaways.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15First, the meat was separated from the vegetables
0:10:15 > 0:10:18and the rest of the sauce.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21Then, it was minced to make it easier to inspect.
0:10:21 > 0:10:25The samples were mixed with various chemicals, heated into a kind
0:10:25 > 0:10:30of soup and then inserted into a machine that separates the DNA.
0:10:30 > 0:10:32Finally, the results are in.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35How will our ten lamb curries do?
0:10:35 > 0:10:38The samples were described as lamb curries,
0:10:38 > 0:10:42but we've actually seen that three of them contained beef only.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- There is no lamb in them. - It's official.
0:10:45 > 0:10:50The multiple strands of DNA reveal three out of the ten are fake
0:10:50 > 0:10:55lamb curries. The restaurants have used meat which is a lot cheaper.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57And Paul is shocked by the results.
0:10:57 > 0:11:00To have three samples out of ten that contain beef only
0:11:00 > 0:11:03when they're described as a lamb curry is surprising.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07That is a high proportion of substitution.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09After the horse meat incident
0:11:09 > 0:11:11and all the focus that went onto the food chain,
0:11:11 > 0:11:15particularly the meat supply within the food chain,
0:11:15 > 0:11:19you would expect all suppliers to be whiter than white at the minute.
0:11:19 > 0:11:20This is obviously not the case.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26Award-winning curry chef Cyrus Todiwala OBE is
0:11:26 > 0:11:29outraged by the results of our tests.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32It is morally wrong.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Makes me feel rather sad that it is some of my fellow
0:11:35 > 0:11:38restaurateurs who could have done that.
0:11:38 > 0:11:42Whichever shape or form you look at it, it's wrong. It is cheating.
0:11:42 > 0:11:46Cyrus explained how he believes the curry fakers are getting away
0:11:46 > 0:11:48with duping customers.
0:11:48 > 0:11:53Lamb has distinct flavour profile, but if I cut it really small
0:11:53 > 0:11:57and I mix it up and I cook with it, it would be very difficult, unless
0:11:57 > 0:12:00you're a real professional, to find out that it's beef and not lamb.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03An average person dining in a restaurant would not know
0:12:03 > 0:12:06the difference.
0:12:06 > 0:12:10We passed the results of our survey to Trading Standards.
0:12:10 > 0:12:14Amazingly, their own tests across the UK also
0:12:14 > 0:12:18reveal about a third of lamb curries contains beef.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21That suggests millions of people are being mis-sold lamb curries
0:12:21 > 0:12:23every year.
0:12:23 > 0:12:27Karin Lowe is joint head of the food fraud investigation team.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30If a consumer's asked for a lamb curry,
0:12:30 > 0:12:31they should receive a lamb curry.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35Food fraud does seem to occur more often in an economic downturn,
0:12:35 > 0:12:37but that doesn't make it right.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40It's still a criminal offence, at the end of the day,
0:12:40 > 0:12:43to mis-describe food and businesses can face penalties of up
0:12:43 > 0:12:47to £20,000 fine or two years in prison.
0:12:47 > 0:12:53- Cyrus Todiwala has a message for the fakers.- Please don't do it.
0:12:53 > 0:12:56Please announce it. Please tell the people that I am not cooking lamb
0:12:56 > 0:12:59because I can't afford it, or whatever reason I have got.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Why don't you try beef curry instead of lamb curry? People trust you.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06You cannot break that trust, you cannot break that respect.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15Not surprisingly, since we're in the Fake Britain house,
0:13:15 > 0:13:18all of these pharmaceutical products are fakes.
0:13:18 > 0:13:22We've looked at bogus medicines before on Fake Britain
0:13:22 > 0:13:24and they're still flooding into the country.
0:13:24 > 0:13:28We don't know what's in them, we don't know where they were made,
0:13:28 > 0:13:30or the conditions they were made in.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34What we do know is that they're on sale right now online.
0:13:34 > 0:13:37We've been following the teams whose job it is to protect us
0:13:37 > 0:13:39from this kind of fakery.
0:13:42 > 0:13:47Danny Lee-Frost, head of enforcement for medical watchdog the MHRA,
0:13:47 > 0:13:51is engaged in an ongoing battle against fake medicine traders.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54This morning, he's on his way to raid the house of a Midlands
0:13:54 > 0:13:57man believed to be receiving shipments from China,
0:13:57 > 0:14:02part of an operation targeting fake and unlicensed health products.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05We are visiting an address that is connected with the sale
0:14:05 > 0:14:11online of unlicensed hair loss products.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13The internet advertises creams,
0:14:13 > 0:14:17pills and other products that promise to reverse hair loss.
0:14:17 > 0:14:21The MHRA's branded almost all as fake.
0:14:21 > 0:14:25With the team in position, it's time to go in.
0:14:27 > 0:14:31Test purchases reveal the products contain three times the legal
0:14:31 > 0:14:33limit of the active ingredient minoxidil.
0:14:33 > 0:14:37This could be extremely dangerous, especially if used by pregnant
0:14:37 > 0:14:42women, but sold online, the trade is completely unregulated.
0:14:42 > 0:14:44KNOCKS ON DOOR
0:14:44 > 0:14:47It's the police. Could you open the door, please?
0:14:55 > 0:14:58Officers enter together with police.
0:14:58 > 0:15:02They secure the suspects and begin hunting for dodgy hair loss
0:15:02 > 0:15:04products and anything connected with their sale.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07It's being sold by someone from a residential address to
0:15:07 > 0:15:10basically anyone with a credit card.
0:15:10 > 0:15:14That makes it very unsafe for anybody to buy it, to use it,
0:15:14 > 0:15:17without any qualified instructions at all.
0:15:17 > 0:15:22It's not long before the team finds what it's been looking for.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27We've got quite a lot of stuff here.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30We've got the stuff we were looking for, which is
0:15:30 > 0:15:31the hair loss treatment.
0:15:31 > 0:15:36We've also got medicated versions of the shampoo.
0:15:36 > 0:15:37Again, that's illegal.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41All of this stuff, we'll have to send off to the lab to get analysed to see
0:15:41 > 0:15:45what it actually contains and what the actual strength of this stuff is.
0:15:45 > 0:15:49The man will be interviewed at a later stage.
0:15:49 > 0:15:52An offence like this is very serious.
0:15:53 > 0:15:57The specific offences we're looking at today have a maximum
0:15:57 > 0:16:00penalty of two years' imprisonment and or an unlimited fine.
0:16:02 > 0:16:06Later, Danny and his team visit a Midlands postal hub to
0:16:06 > 0:16:10intercept parcels stuffed full of fake drugs.
0:16:11 > 0:16:14This is a serious, serious health risk.
0:16:23 > 0:16:27Earlier in our exclusive fake alcohol report, parents Brent
0:16:27 > 0:16:31and Pam Emmons described their horror as they discovered
0:16:31 > 0:16:34their daughter Cheznye had been fatally poisoned by fake gin
0:16:34 > 0:16:38in a popular backpacker town in Indonesia.
0:16:39 > 0:16:45Basically, her brain was dead and there was nothing else you could do.
0:16:45 > 0:16:47It just didn't seem fair.
0:16:51 > 0:16:53In the wake of the tragedy,
0:16:53 > 0:16:57dad Brent has decided to return to the country.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Three months after his daughter's death, he's travelling 8,000 miles
0:17:00 > 0:17:04to ensure police are doing everything they can to stop the sale
0:17:04 > 0:17:08of killer fake gin Mansion House to even more British travellers.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15In fact, there's no such thing as genuine Mansion House gin.
0:17:15 > 0:17:18What's on sale is a deadly mix of water
0:17:18 > 0:17:21and the chemical methanol, more commonly used in antifreeze.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26For Brent, this is bound to be an emotionally difficult trip,
0:17:26 > 0:17:30but he's determined to ensure that other travellers will be safe.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33I've now got a four-hour journey to Bukit Lawang
0:17:33 > 0:17:36where we've got to find the gin that poisoned my daughter.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44With the help of locals who met Cheznye, Brent tracks
0:17:44 > 0:17:48down the very shop which sold the fake booze that killed his daughter.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54This is the shop that they bought the gin from.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57I'm going to see what they've got for sale there now.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05Brent's been assured by the police that the area is no longer
0:18:05 > 0:18:08selling the stuff, but within seconds of buying some beers,
0:18:08 > 0:18:13he's offered more lethal spirits - now being stored out the back.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16When the shopkeeper's son realises they're being filmed,
0:18:16 > 0:18:18the transaction stops.
0:18:23 > 0:18:26Brent now visits another local shop.
0:18:26 > 0:18:30This time, the woman sells him the same fake gin that Cheznye drank,
0:18:30 > 0:18:33Mansion House, proving that the lethal drink is still
0:18:33 > 0:18:36openly on sale to tourists and locals.
0:18:40 > 0:18:45It's exactly the same bottle that Cheznye and Joe bought
0:18:45 > 0:18:49and it works out about £3.20, which is nothing.
0:18:51 > 0:18:56I'm gutted really because I thought that they'd stopped selling it
0:18:56 > 0:18:59around here completely, but obviously not.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Potentially, this could kill somebody,
0:19:02 > 0:19:05kill somebody else's child, and they're still selling it.
0:19:11 > 0:19:15Back home, Brent reflects on just what he found in Indonesia.
0:19:18 > 0:19:22I felt like going down and burning the bloody shop down myself,
0:19:22 > 0:19:25but obviously you're not going to do that
0:19:25 > 0:19:27because we want it done in the right way.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31But how these shops are still selling it... And they...
0:19:31 > 0:19:36The heartbreaking thing is they know that this is Russian roulette.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39They're potentially selling a bottle of poison to somebody.
0:19:39 > 0:19:41At a quick glance,
0:19:41 > 0:19:44the quality of the bottle would suggest that it's safe.
0:19:44 > 0:19:48If you really do look at it, you can tell the label's a bit skewwhiff,
0:19:48 > 0:19:53the hologram is not a very good one, and if you look at it carefully,
0:19:53 > 0:19:56there's a few bits and pieces floating about.
0:19:56 > 0:20:01But the scary thing is the top is very good, it's very well done,
0:20:01 > 0:20:03and you're a traveller on holiday,
0:20:03 > 0:20:07you're not going to study this bottle, are you?
0:20:11 > 0:20:15We sent the gin to be analysed at a test lab.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Scientists were looking for the presence of methanol,
0:20:18 > 0:20:22a cheap substitute for the ethanol found in normal alcoholic drinks.
0:20:30 > 0:20:35Not only was the gin fake, the levels were off the chart.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39The gin was like no other gin that I've ever seen before.
0:20:39 > 0:20:44It was only 4% alcohol, but the real problem was the methanol.
0:20:44 > 0:20:48It was almost 25% methanol by volume.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50Methanol is very poisonous.
0:20:51 > 0:20:56The legal limit for methanol in gin is 10 grams
0:20:56 > 0:21:00per 100 litres of alcohol.
0:21:00 > 0:21:07We found 441,000 grams per 100 litres of alcohol.
0:21:07 > 0:21:10So you can see, it's 44,000 times the limit.
0:21:10 > 0:21:14That is most certainly not safe.
0:21:14 > 0:21:18It's unlikely fake gin this dangerous has ever been
0:21:18 > 0:21:20seen in Britain before.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23It could have horrific consequences for anyone drinking even
0:21:23 > 0:21:26the smallest amount.
0:21:26 > 0:21:30If you drank one shot of this particular gin, it would
0:21:30 > 0:21:32quite possibly make you blind.
0:21:32 > 0:21:37It would certainly have a very severe effect on your eyesight.
0:21:37 > 0:21:41Depending on the person, because it is very variable,
0:21:41 > 0:21:43two doubles may kill you.
0:21:45 > 0:21:50You would definitely be killed by a large amount of this,
0:21:50 > 0:21:53say half of this bottle.
0:21:53 > 0:21:58I've never seen a gin with anywhere near as much methanol as this.
0:21:58 > 0:22:01It is definitely a shocking result.
0:22:01 > 0:22:05It's not a good idea that it's being sold to anybody.
0:22:05 > 0:22:09It would kill anybody that drank it.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Whilst Brent was in Indonesia,
0:22:16 > 0:22:20local police tracked down the source of the fake gin.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24They discovered an industrial operation.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28They closed down a warehouse that had
0:22:28 > 0:22:31over 5,000 bottles of fake alcohol in.
0:22:31 > 0:22:33They had arrested workers
0:22:33 > 0:22:36and the main man that owned the distillery was on the run.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43The illicit plant was flooding the popular tourist region,
0:22:43 > 0:22:46churning out fake whisky and vodka, as well as gin.
0:22:48 > 0:22:53They found a list containing the places that they distributed
0:22:53 > 0:22:58the fake spirits to
0:22:58 > 0:23:03and they listed shops, bars, clubs.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08So, you're not safe anywhere, really.
0:23:08 > 0:23:12As well as Cheznye, backpackers from Australia, Sweden
0:23:12 > 0:23:17and Ireland have all died from drinking fake alcohol in Indonesia.
0:23:18 > 0:23:24In 2009, 25 people were poisoned by methanol in Bali alone.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Brent and Pam Emmons are desperate for more awareness amongst
0:23:33 > 0:23:36British travellers about the perils of fake alcohol,
0:23:36 > 0:23:41particularly young backpackers visiting South East Asia.
0:23:41 > 0:23:44Our family and friends have started a campaign.
0:23:44 > 0:23:48It's called Chez Safe A Life Campaign. You can get it on Facebook.
0:23:48 > 0:23:52We're lobbying the Government at the moment to try
0:23:52 > 0:23:55and get leaflets given out when the doctors give you inoculations
0:23:55 > 0:23:57when you go to these countries.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00If you know somebody that is going to these countries,
0:24:00 > 0:24:03or even surrounding countries, Thailand, Bali, all these
0:24:03 > 0:24:08other places, just say, "I've seen this programme," make them aware.
0:24:11 > 0:24:15If you think that the bottle doesn't look right,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18doesn't smell quite right,
0:24:18 > 0:24:19don't chance it.
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Don't chance it, because it is one single drink, and that can kill you.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33- KNOCKING - It's the police.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35Earlier, we saw the MHRA raid the house of a man
0:24:35 > 0:24:39suspected of selling dangerous hair loss products.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44This morning, head of enforcement Danny Lee-Frost and his team
0:24:44 > 0:24:47are at a postal hub in the Midlands.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52They've teamed up with the Border Force to intercept packages
0:24:52 > 0:24:57entering the UK which are suspected to contain dangerous fake medicines.
0:24:58 > 0:25:01They're concerned some of these counterfeit drugs
0:25:01 > 0:25:03may be getting into pharmacies.
0:25:03 > 0:25:05What we're looking at here is a parcel
0:25:05 > 0:25:07that's come off a flight from Hong Kong.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10It's a suspicious parcel, it rattles,
0:25:10 > 0:25:14there's an indication there's possibly blisters of tablets inside,
0:25:14 > 0:25:16so we're going to open it up and have a look.
0:25:20 > 0:25:21Oh, yes.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31What we have got here are blisters of tablets,
0:25:31 > 0:25:34clones of genuine Viagra.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Counterfeit erectile dysfunction drugs
0:25:37 > 0:25:39are a massive problem for the MHRA.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45Danny finds Cialis and two kinds of counterfeit Viagra.
0:25:45 > 0:25:47Despite the convincing branding,
0:25:47 > 0:25:50there's no way of knowing what's inside these drugs.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54This is a serious, serious health risk to anybody who takes it.
0:25:54 > 0:25:58But there is a big incentive to deal in counterfeit medicines.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01The trade is making the fakers millions.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03There's a hell of a lot of tablets in this box.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05The box itself weighs ten kilos,
0:26:05 > 0:26:09so we're looking at about 10,000 blisters in there.
0:26:09 > 0:26:14That's probably got a street value of anything between £50-£70,000.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18Counterfeit medical tablets have previously been found
0:26:18 > 0:26:22to contain anything from amphetamines to brick dust.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26Our overriding concern is could these products
0:26:26 > 0:26:30end up on a chemist shop shelf somewhere in the UK?
0:26:30 > 0:26:33Could somebody go along with a prescription from their doctor
0:26:33 > 0:26:35and end up with one of these?
0:26:38 > 0:26:41The suspect meds are tested on hi-tech machines
0:26:41 > 0:26:44bought with money seized in previous raids.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49All the medicines are fake.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54Then Danny discovers another dangerous product.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59This one is marketed for weight loss, but it's extremely unsafe.
0:27:00 > 0:27:02We have had these analysed.
0:27:02 > 0:27:06They do contain the active ingredient sibutramine.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Products containing sibutramine were withdrawn in 2010
0:27:10 > 0:27:13after it emerged that the chemical can cause heart attacks.
0:27:13 > 0:27:16Anyone buying this thinking they're getting
0:27:16 > 0:27:18a legitimate product will be mistaken.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21It's illegal and dangerous.
0:27:21 > 0:27:26These shouldn't be sold. They claim they have natural plant ingredients.
0:27:26 > 0:27:30Actually it's got a very powerful pharmaceutical ingredient in there,
0:27:30 > 0:27:33but nobody who takes it would actually know it's there.
0:27:33 > 0:27:36The dangerous slimming product
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Danny has seized is loaded into a van,
0:27:39 > 0:27:41together with dozens of fake medicines.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47They're transported to the NHRA's secret storehouse.
0:27:50 > 0:27:53The contents of the van are brought inside.
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Amazingly, this is just one day's seizure of counterfeit
0:27:57 > 0:28:01and unlicensed medicines from one of the UK's many postal hubs.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Danny's message is clear.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06It's dangerous for people to buy their medicines online.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09You should only be buying them from reputable sources
0:28:09 > 0:28:12and, ideally, they should be going to see their doctor in the first place.
0:28:18 > 0:28:20That's all from Fake Britain. Goodbye.