février 2013 -

“This book must be red not only by food and drug regulators but also by the general public who are keen about their health and implications of consuming counterfeit drugs.

It also revealed some major manufacturing companies that were blacklisted in different years due to their involvement in the production of counterfeit drugs and how to identify genuine and fake drugs.”

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GHANA : Businesswoman grabbed with fake drugs

A businesswoman has found herself in the dock for allegedly importing and distributing into the Ghanaian market, 481 cartons of fake Tres-Orix Forte medicine valued at GH¢120,215.50. The accused person, Rita Fordjour, aged 52, allegedly distributed the said poisonous drug to the Ashanti Region and N

TruScan ‘not robust enough for substandard drug detection’

ThermoFisher Scientific’s TruScan device is increasingly used as a first-line screening defence against counterfeit medicines, but is not a reliable way to tackle the larger problem of substandard drugs. In simple terms, substandard medicines are a category that includes genuine drug products which