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Trade in Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Products / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and European Union Intellectual Property Office.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Series:
- Illicit Trade 26175835.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Governance.
- Trade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (100 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : OECD Publishing, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This report, one in a series of studies by the OECD and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), enhances understanding of the issues and challenges facing governments, businesses and society posed by the trade in fake pharmaceutical products. Illicit markets for fake pharmaceuticals are attractive for counterfeiters, given the high profit margins, low risks of detection and prosecution, weak penalties, and the ease with which consumers can be deceived into believing that the counterfeit products are genuine. Counterfeit medicines not only cause economic damage for the sector, but are also a significant threat to public health, since fake medicines are often not properly formulated and may contain dangerous ingredients. Fake pharmaceuticals include antibiotics, lifestyle treatments, pain killers, anti-malarial drugs, diabetes treatments and central nervous system medicines.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Executive Summary
- Preface
- Additional Tables
- Concluding remarks
- Mapping the scale of the fake pharmaceutical challenge
- The push factors behind counterfeit pharmaceuticals
- Impact of counterfeit medicines
- Counterfeit pharmaceuticals: scope and data
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- The supply chain: marketing, transport and distribution
- Efforts to combat counterfeit pharmaceuticals
- Industry overview
- Data and methodology
- Foreword.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed May 1, 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9789264477896
- 9789264606975
- 9789264769465
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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