How to Keep Counterfeit Drugs off the Market
Statistics reveal that counterfeit and gray market sales amount to a whopping $300-600 billion annually.
The
incidence of counterfeit drugs is higher in underdeveloped and developing countries where there are...
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How to Keep Counterfeit Drugs off the Market
Statistics reveal that counterfeit and gray market sales amount to a whopping $300-600 billion annually.
The
incidence of counterfeit drugs is higher in underdeveloped and developing countries where there are almost nonexistent regulatory systems to control them.
Therefore Asia, Africa and Latin America are the major locations for
counterfeit drug sales.
Be it branded drugs or generic, both have found their way into the counterfeit market.
More than half of these counterfeit drugs can be found on the Internet.
Online auction sites have become “virtual”
drug markets but buyers are unaware of the dangers of buying such spurious medicines they believe to be
genuine.
Buying counterfeit drugs can be fatal; therefore people who buy drugs online should understand that there may
be serious pitfalls.
Such online shoppers need to be extremely wary of drugs that are far cheaper than their
original price.
If the price is too low to merit the act
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