Drug Makers Take Aim at Counterfeiting Operations
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Big pharmaceutical companies are testing new tracking technology they hope will help them spot counterfeit drugs before they reach consumers' medicine cabinets. By putting tags that transmit radio waves on medicine bottles sent to drug stores, company officials think they will be able to detect fake drugs.
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The European Union and the United States are to launch a joint anti-counterfeiting initiative at a summit Wednesday, with China and Russia as the main targets, the European Commission said.
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- The US Food and Drug Administration may soon take legal action against states that insist on importing prescription drugs from foreign drug retailers, a senior agency official says.
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Microsoft has come up with a strategy it thinks will encourage users to help it in the fight against piracy: the Windows XP Counterfeit Project.
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BEIJING - China has promised to pursue product pirates identified by American authorities in a new effort to stamp out its thriving counterfeit industry, the head of the U.S. customs agency said Friday.
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A month after a new U.S. law  encouraging the development of medicines to counter  bioterrorism, some drugmakers are lobbying for more incentives  to make products that may never be used.
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China is tightening application procedures for firms seeking to manufacture drugs, state media reported on Monday, following a rash of scandals over fake medicines and corruption in the industry.
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European regulators raided some of the continentâs biggest drug makers in an inquiry over whether patent disputes and lawsuits are keeping generic products off the market.
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British drugmakers are launching a legal  challenge to moves by the state-run National Health Service to  switch large numbers of patients onto cheap generic  prescription medicines.
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Top official suggests more "secure" IDs envisioned by controversial law will help pharmacies to ferret out customers buying over-the-counter ingredients to concoct the drug.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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Description: The Food and Drug Administration and several major drug makers announce an anti-fraud initiative to put tiny radio tags into the labels of wholesale pill bottles supplied to pharmacies.
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Mexican authorities are investigating the sale of fake or substandard medicine in a border town so popular among Americans seeking cheap medications that it has more pharmacies than streets.    U.S...
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Millions regularly buy prescription drugs in spite of risk they could be sold fakes, research shows
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Counterfeit batches of Sanofi-Aventis SA's best-selling blood-thinning drug Plavix have been discovered in the British supply chain, the country's drugs regulator said.
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An investigation has been launched to investigate whether drug firms have been fixing the market to squeeze out copycat medicines
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Half of men buying the impotence drug Viagra online are getting counterfeit tablets, study findings suggest. Dr Nic Wilson from the University of London tested Internet-sold samples using a new technique that accurately spots the ingredients of tablets.