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Substandard and falsified medicines

, 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.
SA (Amalia) Hasnida, Steven Harsono, M (Maarten) Kok, Yusi Anggriani, Mawaddati Rahmi, E (Elizabeth) Pisani   +5 more
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Digital drug screening to detect falsified, expired andrecalled medicines [PDF]

, 2018
Falsified medicines are a global health and pharmaceutical sector issue which affect supply chains in low, middle and high-income countries. There are many methods to identify substandard and falsified medicines.
Naughton, Bernard David
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The falsified medicines directive and legal guarantees to ensure authenticity of medicines. The impact of drug serialization on medicine safety in the EU [PDF]

, 2019
The aim of this study is to present the impact of the new legal solutions introduced in the so-called Falsified Medicines Directive on medicine safety in the EU.
Stych, Marek
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What's in a Word? Falsified/Counterfeit/Fake Medicines - The Definitions Debate

Medicine Access @ Point of Care, 2017
There is a rising tide of criminal activity to manufacture and distribute falsified, counterfeit, or fake medicines. The exact size of this problem is unknown but estimates vary from US$75 billion to US$200 billion per year, and evidence clearly ...
Mike Isles
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Effectiveness of medicines authentication technology to detect counterfeit, recalled and expired medicines: a two-stage quantitative secondary care study

BMJ Open, 2016
Objectives To identify the authentication and detection rate of serialised medicines using medicines authentication technology.Design and intervention 4192 serialised medicines were entered into a hospital dispensary over two separate 8-week stages in ...
David Brindley, Stephen Chapman, Lindsey Roberts, Bernard Naughton, Sue Dopson   +4 more
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Quality of antimalarial drugs and antibiotics in Papua New Guinea : a survey of the health facility supply chain [PDF]

, 2014
Poor-quality life-saving medicines are a major public health threat, particularly in settings with a weak regulatory environment. Insufficient amounts of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) endanger patient safety and may contribute to the ...
Betuela Inoni, Davis, T., Page-Sharp Madhu, Betuela, I., Page-Sharp, Madhu, Bala, Nancy, Bala Nancy, Manuel W Hetzel, Timothy M E Davis, Evelyn K Lavu, Pulford Justin, Lavu, Evelyn K., Nancy Bala, Nancy Bala (563875), Hetzel Manuel W., Davis Timothy M. E., Madhu Page-Sharp (563874), Evelyn K. Lavu (563877), Davis, Timothy M. E., Lavu Evelyn K., Justin Pulford, Lavu, E., Bala, N., Pulford, J., Madhu Page-Sharp, Betuela, Inoni, Inoni Betuela, Hetzel, M., Hetzel, Manuel W., Pulford, Justin, Justin Pulford (563876), Inoni Betuela (67110), Timothy M. E. Davis (112260), Manuel W. Hetzel (563873)   +33 more
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EU POLICY AGAINST FALSIFIED MEDICINES: OPTIONS FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENT [PDF]

, 2020
The globalization of trade and internet access significantly increased the health risks associated with falsified medicines. International organizations, pharmaceutical companies and national governments developed a wide variety of measures to combat ...
Valcheva, Krasimira
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Combating falsified medicines in Africa through digital artefacts [PDF]

, 2016
Falsified medicines are again in the news, this time in a piece for the BBC News’ websites business section. In his article, Matthew Wall looks at the problem of combating falsified, counterfeit and substandard anti-malarial medicines in Africa through ...
Hibberd, Ralph
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2SPD-021 Noncompliance of datamatrix codes, an obstacle to implementation of the falsified medicines directive [PDF]

Section 2: Selection, Procurement and Distribution, 2019
Background To reduce counterfeit drugs, the serialisation will become mandatory on 9 February 2019. A DataMatrix code will be used to encode each secondary packaging. This 2D barcode makes it possible to indicate an important number of traceability data in a small area.
S Cayeux, A Durand, JF Boutigny, C Vantyghem, M Belhout   +4 more
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Falsified Medicines, a Crime without Punishment [PDF]

, 2017
Falsified medicines are a global threat that does not stop growing. Its trafficking causes more deaths than malaria while being more profitable than drug smuggling.
Quentin DUTEIL, Marc GENTILINI, Gentilini, Marc, Duteil, Quentin   +3 more
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