Substandard and Falsified Medicines: Proposed Methods for Case Finding and Sentinel Surveillance
JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2021 The World Health Organization and others warn that substandard and falsified medicines harm health and waste money, especially in low- and middle-income countries.
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Pharmacy, 2020 Substandard and falsified medicines are often reported worldwide. An accurate and rapid detection method for falsified medicines is needed to prevent human health hazards. Raman scattering spectroscopy has emerged as a non-destructive analysis method for
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Falsified Medicines—Bridging the Gap between Business and Public Health [PDF]
Pharmacy, 2016 The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most regulated industries in the world. While legislation is necessary to protect patients, too much legislation is said to hamper innovation and increase medicine prices.
Rasmus Borup, Janine Traulsen
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Falsified Medicines Directive: Are We Heading in the Right Direction?
Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2017 Falsified medicines for human use are an increasing problem in Europe. The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) 2011/62/EU provides measures to prevent the entry of falsified medicines into the legal supply chain by requiring the placing of safety ...
Roberto Frontini
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Forensic investigation of falsified antimalarials using isotope ratio mass spectrometry: a pilot investigation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWe explored whether isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) is useful to investigate the origin of falsified antimalarials. Forty-four falsified and genuine antimalarial samples (artesunate, artemether-lumefantrine, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine and ...
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Development and initial validation of a postal survey evaluation of community pharmacists’ opinion regarding falsified (counterfeit) medicines in Hampshire (UK) [PDF]
Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research, 2018 Context: Falsified-medicines pose a worldwide problem to patients, healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. Community pharmacists are usually the last points of contact with patients and can protect them by quarantining ...
Ravina Barrett, Hussein A. Al-Mousawi
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The economic impact of substandard and falsified antimalarial medications in Nigeria. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 IntroductionSubstandard and falsified medications pose significant risks to global health. Nearly one in five antimalarials circulating in low- and middle-income countries are substandard or falsified.
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Brexit and the falsified medicines directive [PDF]
, 2017 In order to help patients avoid being exposed to falsified medicines, the European Commission developed a series of measures to support patients in identifying licenced suppliers of pharmaceutical medicines, and suppliers to identify whether an end-user ...
Hibberd, Ralph
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EU Falsified Medicines Directive mandatory requirements for secondary care: A concise review [PDF]
, 2016 Since the publication of the Falsified Medicines Directive in 2011 and the subsequent delegated regulation in February 2016, there has been much discussion surrounding the level of Falsified Medicines Directive compliance required by secondary care ...
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Quality assessment of Diflucan tablets distributed online: Diflucan distributed online
Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2021 Background: Falsified medical products have been reported worldwide. Falsified medicines with poor quality are a potential health hazard. Some Internet sites advertise fluconazole (Diflucan ® ), an antifungal medicine used to treat deep mycoses, as ...
Tomoko Sanada +4 more
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