In Europe, the black market for counterfeit medecines has exploded in last few years. They menace our health and stopping the trade in counterfeit medecines has become a substantial case to protect European citizens. Counterfeit medecins are an infraction on intellectual property and te ingredients could be wrongly dosed. The most important source of counterfeit medecines would be the internet, after all you're just one click away from purshasing counterfeit medecines.
The European Commission is collaborating with the European Medicines Agency and other international organizations to stop the trading in counterfeit products. The major goals are to have a better view on the black market, to define the real medecines much better and to develop methods to detect and to check legal medecines. All these suggestions were grouped together and is known as the "pharma package".
It's clear that a lot has to be done. But it is postive that the problem has been noticed by Europe, our health is after all always our number one concern.
Mathieu De Meulemeester
http://www.ehfcn.org/newsletter/2010/q2-2/articles/nr/373
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