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Abstract
According to the WHO definition, a counterfeit drug is
“a medicine, which is deliberately and fraudulently mis-labeled
with respect to identity and/or source. Counterfeiting
can apply to both branded and generic products and
counterfeit products may include products with the
correct ingredients or with the wrong ingredients,
without active ingredients, with insufficient active
ingredients or with fake packaging”. Such drugs have
harmful effect on patients as not having the desired
effect is also harmful for patient under treatment which
may lead to death in several cases. In our country’s
drug legislation, the word “counterfeit” does not exist
and this type of products are termed as “adulterated and
spurious”. These have been defined in Drugs Act with
similar meaning as termed above by WHO. It further
mentioned that “counterfeit medicines and other health
products are also detrimental to public health efforts
to deal with disease in countries which are already
stretched thin with limited resources for health care”.
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