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India Main Source of Counterfeit Medicines Seized in Europe

...ity of this nation and highlights the reality that counterfeiting is carried out at an industrial scale where a potential profit is perceived,'' noted the EU report. However, China remains the main source for counterfeit goods seized in Europe , with over 80 percent all articles seized coming from there. In 20...

China is Cracking Down on Food Safety

...gthening food and drug safety and cracking down on counterfeiting operations. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, 'The Chinese government attaches great importance to the safety and security of food.' She also said, 'We stand ready to work with the international com...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

...wders. Unlike drug smuggling, however, medicine counterfeiting is still not considered a criminal offence under t...tories for testing and legislation making medicine counterfeiting a criminal offence is expected to be adopted by parliament later this year. The medicine inspectio...

Fake medicines from India seized in Europe

...vacs, the EU Taxation Commissioner. He said that counterfeiting and piracy remained a major concern for the public and legitimate manufacturers. The latest European customs statistics released Saturday said that in 148 operations last year, customs officers intercepted 560,598 packets of fake medicines. The sei...

New Zealand Scientist Warns On Fake Drugs

...own after forensic analysis of fake tablets. "The counterfeiting is so good that it's impossible to tell the fake pills and packaging apart from the genuine product, even with close visual inspection," said Mildenhall, who works for GNS Science at Lower Hutt near Wellington. "Every security measure taken by the g...

Lens Wearers Alerted Over Dangerous Fungal Infection

...s no evidence of product contamination, tampering, counterfeiting or sterility failure. That leads us to conclude that some aspect of the MoistureLoc formula may be increasing the relative risk of Fusarium infection in unusual circumstances,’ said Ronald Zarrella, chief executive officer of Bausch & Lomb. Fusariu...

The Use of Radio Frequency Identification ( RFID) to tackle the growing menace of counterfeit drugs

... would be ideal in India. Factors that encourage counterfeiting include immediate returns, lack of appropriate drug legislation, absence or weak drug regulations, weak enforcement and the nature of trade where there are several intermediates. Thus officials say that a coordinated effort among pharma companies, pa...

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