A pharmacist used dead doctors’ details to create patient dispensing records for an unapproved medication that she planned to sell at “considerable cost” in her pharmacy, a tribunal has heard.

Mualla Akinci’s scheme came to light after 225 vials of injectable phosphatidylcholine were seized by the Australian Border Force in 2019.

The consignment was confiscated after the TGA found the complementary medicine was not registered for therapeutic use in Australia.

She initially told the watchdog the vials were for her own use.