Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Critical Analysis: The Risk of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals and How to Stem the Flow

Though the term is defined differently in different countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has come up with a working definition of what constitutes a counterfeit drug in an effort to understand the global implications of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and to facilitate the exchange of information between countries regarding this issue.  An estimated 5% of world trade in branded products is counterfeit. Pharmaceuticals are an attractive product for counterfeiting for a variety of factors, the most problematic of which are the difficulty in detecting counterfeits, and lack of a global standard system of enforcement.

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