counterfeit drugs
Counterfeit Drugs – Where There’s a Profit, There’s a Way!
April 11 by Ashley SmithThe counterfeit drug business makes money – an awful lot of money. After all, it’s easier to make a convincing fake pill than a pair of designer jeans and the potential mark-up is far hi...
Factors Influencing Clinical Trial Site Selection in Europe: the Survey of Attitudes towards Trial sites in Europe (the SAT-EU Study)
December 04 by Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology EditorThe SAT-EU study group, an independent non-profit collaborative initiative, supported by the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP) and several other trade and not-for profit organisation...
Standardising Serialisation: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines
June 18 by Andrea CharlesJust in the last few months, another dangerous fake drug made its way into the United States, a bogus version of the cancer drug Avastin surfaced in clinics across America in California, Ill...
What if the Medication that was Supposed to Keep you Alive was Actually Killing You?
June 15 by Pharma IQ NewsIn a chilling new book Roger Bate blows the whistle on what could be America’s greatest health crisis. “Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medicines” reveals how ruthless criminals p...
UN Drugs Agency Warns Online Counterfeiters Growing in Number
March 01 by Niamh MadiganSocial media and the internet are increasingly being used as a means to sell illegal and counterfeit drugs, a UN drugs agency has warned. Internet offers of prescription ‘lifesty...
Guido Hoogewijs - APB Speaks About the Benefits and Pitfalls of Online Authentication
February 18 by Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology EditorSerialisation, Track & Trace and e-Pedigree for Pharma
February 18 by Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology EditorCatching the Counterfeiters: Efforts to Combat Global Drug Counterfeiting Intensify
November 23 by Pharma IQDespite measures intended to stem the tide of counterfeit medicines entering the market, figures from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime suggest that smugglers are capable of making &eur...
Innomech Highlights Importance of Drug Traceability
September 27 by Pharma IQWhile drugs and medicines offer major benefits to millions of people across the globe, it is an unfortunate truth that the pharmaceutical industry is not immune to dangerous criminal activity. One o...
Securing the Supply Chain to Combat Counterfeit Medicines
September 07 by Pharma IQCounterfeit medicines present a serious challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. As well as the dangers to public health presented by such drugs, the presence of counterfeit medicines serves to redu...
Pharmacy: The Front Line in Detecting Counterfeit Drugs
July 23 by Pharma IQPharmacists are the last player in the distribution chain, and the ones who have the most interaction with the patient. John Chave, Secretary General of the Pharmaceutical Group of the European Unio...
Roger Bate on the Financial Impact of Serialisation and the Deadly World of Falsified Medicines
April 24 by Roger BateAuthor and economist Roger Bate from the American Enterprise Institute, speaks exclusively to Pharma IQ at the launch of his new book "Phake: The Deadly World of Falsified and Substandard Medic...