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Counterfeit drug - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A counterfeit drug or a counterfeit medicine is a medication which is produced and sold with the intent to deceptively represent its origin, authenticity or effectiveness. The common street term for counterfeit drug is "beat bag." A counterfeit drug may be one which does not contain active ingredients, contains an insufficient quantity of active ingredients, or contains entirely incorrect active ingredients (which may or may not be harmful), and which is typically sold with inaccurate, incorrect, or fake packaging. Counterfeiting is difficult to detect, investigate, and quantify. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Counterfeit_drug   (663 words)

WHO | General information on counterfeit medicines Drugs are unlike other consumer goods in that they are crucial to meeting the important objective of improving public health and so they should not be treated in the same way as other commodities. Equally, the cooperation of the pharmaceutical industry, wholesalers, and retailers to report to the national drug regulatory authority cases of counterfeit drugs is necessary in combating counterfeit drugs. In most cases, counterfeit drugs are not equivalent in safety, efficacy and quality to their genuine counterparts. www.who.int /medicines/services/counterfeit/overview/en/index1.html   (1358 words)

WHO | General information on counterfeit medicines In accordance with Black's law dictionary,' the term "counterfeit drug" may be used to describe а drug made by someone other than the genuine manufacturer, by copying or imitating an original product without authority or right, with а view to deceive or defraud, and then marketing the copied or forged drug as the original. The problem of counterfeit drugs is known to exist in both developed and developing countries. Consequently, counterfeit drug is defined broadly in order to cover drug products that have been copied or forged as well as certain substandard products, particularly those intentionally made to be substandard. www.who.int /medicines/services/counterfeit/overview/en   (915 words)

Counterfeit Counterpunch (DrugWonks) But make no mistake — the prevalence of drug counterfeiters around the world presents a real public health threat, and the rising number of cases we穩e getting involved in should be taken as an unmistakable sign of our resolve in the face of that threat. As we have seen from the counterfeit cases that we’ve already encountered and in many cases that we’ve solved and where we have put people in jail, counterfeit drug products may contain only inactive ingredients, they may contain incorrect ingredients, improper dosages, sub-potent or super-potent ingredients, or they may be contaminated. As I said, the number of cases of counterfeiting is on the increase, and an important part of an effective anti-counterfeiting strategy is to be able to identify and limit the damage from counterfeit drug introductions when they do occur. www.drugwonks.com /2006/03/counterfeit_counterpunch.html   (3000 words)

C&EN: COVER STORY - COUNTERFEIT DRUGS Over the past few years, the number of counterfeit drug cases being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration has quadrupled from an average of five per year in the 1990s to about 20 per year in 2001 and 2002. Recently, for example, counterfeit Procrit, an antianemia drug, placed at risk patients severely ill with cancer and AIDS, and counterfeit Epogen caused grave medical complications for organ transplant recipients and patients with end-stage kidney disease. Adulterated drugs are those that have lost some or all of their effectiveness from improper storage or handling or are contaminated with bacteria or other microorganisms. pubs.acs.org /cen/coverstory/8145/print/8145drugs.html   (3618 words)

On the Loose: Protect Yourself from Counterfeit Drugs The government and companies that manufacture and distribute drugs are working to keep counterfeit drugs out of the U.S. supply, but you can also play a role in making sure your drugs are what they’re supposed to be. Counterfeit drugs may not have the same active ingredients as the real thing, or they may contain the wrong active ingredients, not enough of the active ingredients, too much of the active ingredients, or no active ingredients at all. Counterfeiters are becoming more sophisticated in their technologies and methods of introducing counterfeit drugs into the US system. www.fraud.org /fakedrugs/faq.htm   (1435 words)

2005.11.01: Counterfeit Drugs within the United States Counterfeit drugs under this definition may include products without the active ingredient, with an insufficient quantity of the active ingredient, with the wrong active ingredient, or with packaging that falsely suggests the drug was manufactured by the FDA-approved manufacturer. Although the number of counterfeit drug cases has increased and the threat to the public health is real, most of the suspect counterfeits that we discovered in FY 2004 were found in smaller quantities, compared to those found in FY 2003. Counterfeit drugs may be contaminated or contain inactive ingredients, incorrect ingredients, improper dosages, sub-potent or super-potent ingredients. www.hhs.gov /asl/testify/t051101.html   (5995 words)

ACSH > Publications > The most widely-cited estimate is that 10% of the world’s drug supply is counterfeit and the counterfeit drug industry’s sales are expected to reach $75 billion by 2010, representing a 92% increase from 2005. Counterfeiting is an especially serious problem in developing countries, where supply shortages, lax regulations and oversight, and corruption allow the trade to thrive. The reason is that most counterfeit, substandard or degraded medicines contain incorrect levels of a drug’s active ingredient, which causes the weaker strains of the causal agent to be killed off while allowing the drug-resistant strains to multiply and adapt. www.acsh.org /publications/pubID.1384/pub_detail.asp   (829 words)

FDA's Counterfeit Drug Task Force Interim Report Questions and Answers For example, Procrit, a drug used by cancer and AIDS patients, was recently counterfeited and the drug was replaced with nonsterile tap water, which could have caused a severe infection of the bloodstream. Counterfeit drugs generally are associated with the practice of diversion. For example, counterfeiting a prescription drug label (bearing a registered trademark) is punishable by up to ten years in prison, while counterfeiting the drug itself is punishable by a maximum of only three years in prison. www.fda.gov /oc/initiatives/counterfeit/report/interim_report.html   (9522 words)

RFID Product News One of the biggest concerns of the drug companies is the presence of counterfeit and spurious drugs in the marketplace by unscrupulous companies. Counterfeit drugs in the global supply chain cost the pharmaceutical industry between $50 and $100 million annually per company in lost revenue and brand reputation damage, and present potentially serious risks to patients in need of the actual prescribed medication. Counterfeit drugs don’t just create a patient safety issue, they are also a serious business problem. www.rfidproductnews.com /issues/2004.11/feature/counterfeit.php   (1177 words)

USATODAY.com - Regulators seeking ways to halt growing counterfeit drug trade   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) WASHINGTON (AP) — America's prescription drug supply is the safest in the world, but attempts to counterfeit drugs are increasing and becoming more sophisticated, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Among possibilities to help defeat counterfeiters are requiring manufacturers to ship pills in smaller quantities, making it less profitable to substitute counterfeits, or using high-tech gadgets such as hidden transmitters or chemical tags to help assure pharmacists medications are genuine. The agency's counterfeit drug task force, formed in July, says it will take multiple strategies because it takes no longer than a year or two for criminals to crack and copy many anti-tampering measures, such as holograms on packaging. www.usatoday.com /news/health/2003-10-15-fda-counterfeits_x.htm   (681 words)

Chemical & Engineering News: Latest News - FDA Combats Counterfeit Drugs Moving to strengthen protections against the growing problem of counterfeit drugs, the Food and Drug Administration on June 9 said it will require pharmaceutical wholesalers to document the chain of custody as drug products pass through the distribution system. Globally, drug counterfeiting is a $32-billion-per-year business, and an estimated 8–10% of the global medicine supply chain is counterfeit, according to the World Health Organization. FDA says its criminal office of investigations opened 32 counterfeit drug cases in fiscal 2005 and 58 the year before, compared with just six in 2000. pubs.acs.org /cen/news/84/i24/8424counterfeit.html   (375 words)

Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals and the Public Health Although counterfeit drugs are most prevalent in developing countries, recent reports indicate an influx of counterfeit drugs in the U.S. Experts at the Partnership for Safe Medicines say Americans are increasingly likely to encounter fake medication due to a combination of more sophisticated criminal activity and border security overwhelmed by throngs of illegal drug traffic. The Pharmaceutical Security Institute reported that the value of seized, counterfeit and diverted drugs in the United States alone was almost $200 million in 2003, a sevenfold increase from the previous year. Although drug counterfeiting is a rising concern, pharmaceutical companies and state and local governments can combat the thieves that could rob the public of their trust in legitimate enterprises. www.buysafedrugs.info /Reports/publichealth.htm   (680 words)

Counterfeit Drug Sales to Reach $75 Billion by 2010, Report Says - by Peter Pitts - The Heartland Institute Drug costs in America are a high-value bargain when compared with the cost of hospitalization that modern drugs avoid. The largest counterfeit market with proximity to the EU free trade zone is Russia, where the generally accepted estimate is that 12 percent of the nation's drugs are counterfeit. With the global supply of counterfeit drugs already huge and growing, it is obvious that the U.S. drug market, which accounts for nearly 50 percent of the world's medicine sales, would be a prime target for counterfeiters, especially if we make their job easier by weakening our current drug import protections. www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=17948   (1130 words)

Drug Busters - CSO Magazine - November 2005 To give an idea of the stark contrast between how genuine and counterfeit drugs are produced—and why Novartis CSO James T. Christian and his security team travel the world to fight the spread of this problem—our story begins at a manufacturing plant in Stein, Switzerland. Counterfeit medication, which WHO calls any drug that is "deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled," can apply to both branded and generic products. Since the merger, his department has seized counterfeit pharmaceuticals (purporting to be made by Novartis and other companies) worth hundreds of millions of dollars, participated in the arrests of hundreds of suspects and seized tons of manufacturing equipment, printing presses and raw materials. www.csoonline.com /read/110105/counterfeit.html   (4897 words)

FDA Unveils New Counterfeit Drug Strategy Combating counterfeiters is nothing new for the government, but officials say drug counterfeiters are especially dangerous. Tracing the movement of drugs as they move through the supply chain using modern track and trace technology, which the FDA says is feasible by 2007. Improving vigilance and awareness of counterfeit drugs, including developing a system that quickly and effectively reports counterfeit drugs to the FDA and notifies affected parties. www.webmd.com /content/Article/82/97247.htm?pagenumber=2   (314 words)

HeraldNet: Counterfeit drug counterpunch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) The more counterfeit drugs are produced, the more likely they are to get into the mainstream distribution system. In August, Britain's regulatory authorities issued their first recall for a fake drug in a decade after counterfeit Cialis and a fake anti-obesity drug were sold by pharmacies. Counterfeit drugs of all kinds also have caught the attention of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization. www.heraldnet.com /stories/05/02/21/100bus_counter001.cfm   (903 words)

Counterfeit Drugs | Issues | Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY) | Official Website Counterfeit drugs have become a bigger problem in the last few years. In 2003, the public learned that the popular cholesterol drug Lipitor was counterfeited and 200,000 bottles were recalled. The drugs go from the manufacturer to a large wholesaler, then through a number of smaller wholesalers, until it finally gets to the local pharmacy. www.house.gov /israel/issues/counterfeitdrugs.htm   (678 words)

Counterfeit Drugs: Needed Laws and Regulations Counterfeit drug cases in the late 1990s involving Nevada drug wholesalers had led them to begin a sweeping investigation of the state's wholesale industry. Three large wholesalers handle the majority of prescription drugs sold in the U.S. They buy most of their products directly from the drugmakers and sell directly to pharmacies. In the process, crooked wholesalers are able to launder counterfeit products and drugs that have been diverted from legitimate channels. www.webmd.com /content/article/95/103350.htm   (697 words)

Case law illustrates liability issues for counterfeit drugs Drug Store News - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) John Gilbert Jr., a former attorney for the Drug Enforcement Agency and now a principal at a boutique law firm specializing in food and drug law, presented some of the first legal cases to address liability issues surrounding counterfeit drugs at last month's thought leadership conference sponsored by BuzzeoPDMA, a division of Dendrite. The case concerned Pfizer, which filed suit against several drug distributors, claiming that its drugs had been counterfeited by the distributors or the distributors had sold counterfeit versions of its drugs. In that case, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration intervened because it had a criminal investigation under way and was concerned about a civil case spilling out information and hurting the FDA's case. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3374/is_3_27/ai_n13463489   (626 words)

AlterNet: Greed Fuels the Booming Counterfeit Drug Industry The true cost of counterfeit drug sales is being passed on to consumers in the developing world, who often suffer severe illnesses and death from fake medicines. Counterfeit drug sales will reach $75 billion globally in 2010, a more than 90 percent increase from 2005, according to the Center for Medicines in the Public Interest. As agency head, she found that only 20 percent of the country's drugs were legitimate and vowed to put the pharmafake manufacturers and dealers out of business. www.alternet.org /story/42668   (1982 words)

2004.02.17: HHS Takes New Steps to Protect Consumers from Counterfeit Drug Threats Though counterfeiting is not now widespread in the U.S. drug market, the FDA is investigating more cases of such activity, often involving well-organized criminal operations working to introduce finished drug products that resemble legitimate drugs but may contain only inactive ingredients, incorrect ingredients, improper doses or be otherwise contaminated. The FDA does not have the legal authority or resources to assure the safety and efficacy of drugs purchased from other countries outside this legal drug distribution system, or from unregulated Internet sites that are not run by pharmacies licensed and regulated by states. Development of a system that helps ensure timely and effective reporting of counterfeit drugs to the FDA, and that strengthens the ability of the FDA, other regulatory agencies, and the other participants in the drug distribution system to respond rapidly to such reports. www.hhs.gov /news/press/2004pres/20040218.html   (799 words)

:: กองควบคุมยา :: THAI DRUG CONTROL DIVISION :: The information of Counterfeit Drug can be send to us by Email : complain@fda.moph.go.th.The information will be shared within the country and region to solve the problem. The study of counterfeit trend on antimalarial medicine and others counterfeit drug collected around the border line between Thailand and Cambodia during 2004. Pictures of counterfeit drug collected around the border line between Thailand and Cambodia. wwwapp1.fda.moph.go.th /drug/eng/zone_counterfeit/fak001.asp   (225 words)

Techdirt: The Counterfeit Drug Boom Reuters is running an interesting story about how the counterfeit drug market is booming lately, thanks to the internet and more advanced distribution chains. While it says that the drugs can "contain the incorrect dose, the wrong ingredients or no active ingredients at all," it doesn't say how many of the counterfeit drugs actually do have issues with incorrect dosage or ingredients. The success rate of new drugs continues to fall, as it becomes harder to improve on existing drugs. techdirt.com /articles/20050801/0053239_F.shtml   (903 words)

Combating Counterfeit Drugs Counterfeit drugs -- illegal and inherently unsafe -- are a growing public health problem. An FDA task force is working with other agencies and the private sector to help protect the nation's drug supply from the threat of counterfeits. Avoid Rx Drugs from Certain Canadian Websites (Aug. 30, 2006) www.fda.gov /oc/initiatives/counterfeit   (63 words)

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