Finding out what medicines contain and investigating their packaging are vital steps in the fight against poor quality medicines, both substandard and falsified. Falsified medicines usually masquerade as real medicines by copying the appearance and packaging of the real product, but may not contain any of the same active ingredients, or in the correct amounts. Substandard medicines result from … [Read more...]

There are many unresolved issues that impede the elimination of poor quality medicines. Progress impeded by confusion over definitions Although there has been an awakening of interest in the problem of poor quality medicines in the last few decades, issues around terminology and definitions have ended up drowning the discussions in a way that has not been productive. The term ‘counterfeit’ … [Read more...]