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Drug Counterfeiting

 

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The fight against counterfeit medicines

25 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer

New research is providing the foundation to apply criminology theory to preventing the production and sale of counterfeit medicines...

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Counterfeit drugs: a global problem

24 March 2016 | By Victoria White, European Pharmaceutical Review

We’ve created an infographic on counterfeit drugs, highlighting some of the actions taken to counter this global problem...

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Counterfeit medicines and the need for a global approach

16 October 2015 | By David Shore, Pfizer

Counterfeit medicines pose a serious risk to public health around the world. The trade in fake drugs is considerable; according to Pfizer’s own company records, more than 200 million counterfeit doses of Pfizer product have been intercepted since 2004. Meanwhile, the issue of counterfeits has no single or simple solution…

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The cost of drug counterfeiting

10 March 2015 | By

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2010 described counterfeit medicines as those which are “Deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can apply to both branded and generic products and counterfeit products may include products with the correct ingredients or with the wrong ingredients, without active…