It turned out that marking drugs in their current form cannot fully guarantee the protection of consumers from counterfeiting – it is likely that digital codes will have to be…
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The USA about Safety and Effectiveness of Indian Drugs
US regulators have doubts about the safety and effectiveness of drugs from India. The bottom line is that Indian companies fabricate drug testing results and sell fakes. Officials have banned…
India – The World’s Largest Manufacturer of Fake Drugs
India is one of the leading pharmaceutical manufacturers in the world. About 24 billion dollars of medicines are produced annually in the country: more than twenty thousand finished medicines and…
Facebook and Twitter Targeted by Spammers and Counterfeit Medicine Ads
The share of spam in email traffic continues to grow. Manufacturers of security systems “keep abreast” and are constantly updating their software, taking into account the technologies used by spammers….
$1.8 mil Investment of Sproxil for Meds’ Verification
Sproxil applies a scratch code on all medications sold in Africa. The buyer sends this code in a text message to the Sproxil verification service, where the product is authenticated….
World Health Assembly: Counterfeit Medications Equate to Drugs
Selling fake medications can be equated with drug trafficking. Those selling illegal drugs through the Internet will be punished with imprisonment of up to eight years, World Health Assembly reported…
Sproxil – American Company for Controlling Quality of Meds
Sproxil is an American-based commercial company. It is venture capital based company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, This company provides consumer SMS and App product verification services. It is called Mobile…
The WHO Prequalification Program
The work of the WHO Prequalification Program helps to ensure that counterfeit medications are not entered pharmacies. This is achieved through a thorough assessment of pharmaceutical products , inspection of…
US WIll Set Large Fines for Counterfeiting Medicines
Tighter penalties for the sale and sale of counterfeit medicines and medical devices will help restore order in the US pharmaceutical market but this is only the first step in…
ED Drugs Top the List of Counterfeit Products in Korea
The drug for the treatment of erectile dysfunction Viagra topped the list of fake goods in Korea in value terms from 2013 to 2015, reported the Korea Times based on…
Kenya Starts Building Pharmaceutical Factory For HIV/AIDS Treatment
At the end of 2019, Kenya plans to open the largest African AIDS medicine plant. This will not only reduce the country’s spending on the fight against the disease, but…
Fake Antimalarials Threaten Millions
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), counterfeit medicines are found everywhere in the world. These are drugs from toxic substances, as well as drugs that are not working. 700,000…