Two convicted of selling $6 million in counterfeit Rockwell software on eBay
Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher for the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Steven B...The Use of Radio Frequency Identification ( RFID) to tackle the growing menace of counterfeit drugs
Manufacturers across the world have been constantly coming up with new strategies// and technologies to curb the proliferation of counterfeit drugs in the market. Deputy director BK Karna of Indian Institute of Packaging says although pharma companies are trying to bring in novel features to prevent proliferation of duplicated drugs with new package designs such as child resistant closu...Need For Smarter Ways To Identify Fake Drugs & Internet Counterfeiting: WHO
The WHO has warned that it is high time for the medicine industry to embrace product-tracking technologies such as radio frequency identification tags that would help identify fake medicines. // Alarmingly, such substandard counterfeit medicines that are deliberately mislabeled to cheat customers have been found to contain even poisonous substances, unfit for human use. These medicine...Counterfeiter Packs Health Problems: Study
In Southeast Asia and Africa, counterfeit of anti-malarial drugs have made thousands of people’s life in trouble, thus there is a need for new laws and provisions// against counterfeiters aroused – said experts. A group of researchers reported in the PLoS Medicine issue that due to counterfeiters malarial parasites become drug-resistant and even put life in a fatal condition....Movement Of Counterfeit Drugs Should Be Curbed: Ramadoss
Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss Monday stressed the need for inter-state cooperation to prevent movement of substandard and counterfeit drugs.// "States should create a good system of intelligence-cum-legal wing, generate information and prepare dossiers on the culprits. They should share the information with all the stakeholders to facilitate curbing this menace," Ramadoss said.<b...Health Officials Urges to Launch Campaign Against Counterfeit Malaria Drugs
Nigeria should launch a campaign to combat counterfeit artemisinin-based combination therapies to prevent malaria //parasites from developing resistance to the treatment, Dora Akunyili, director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, said recently. Akunyili said that the parasite already has grown resistant to chloroquine and fansidar and that if...