Counterfeit medicines

Global crackdown on illegal internet trade yields £51.6m worth of medicines and devices

An international crackdown on the illegal internet trade in medicines has yielded £51.6m worth of items from 115 different countries.…

Pharmaceutical fakes: a dangerous pandemic

A unified authentication system is needed to combat the massive trade in counterfeit medicines. …

Preparation for regulatory inspections

‘Rules and guidance for pharmaceutical distributors 2015’.…

Behind the scenes of medicines regulation

Sir Michael Rawlins talks about how the MHRA intends to speed up approval of innovative medicines, involve pharmacists in reclassification and address drug shortages and trade in counterfeit medicines.…

The Falsified Medicines Directive: time to get it right

The Directive on counterfeit medicines will be complicated to implement and comply with, but it is in everyone’s interest to start thinking about the issues now and get it right first time.…

Poor quality medicines pose a danger to patients

The Medicines Quality Database aims to tackle the problem of substandard medicines.…

Counterfeits designed to deceive pharmacists, RPS conference hears

Counterfeit medicines are being designed specifically to deceive pharmacists, the annual Royal Pharmaceutical Society conference heard.…

New authentication tool for counterfeit medicines

As Peter McAuley (The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014;293:180), Umakant Patel (The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014;293:151) and others have previously highlighted, there will be many issues in implementing and developing the largest IT project ever to hit these shores. However, we have to be …