Fighting the scourge of fake medicines | The World Economic Forum
▻http://forumblog.org/2014/09/cracking-counterfeit-medicines-emerging-markets
When a mother walks into a pharmacy to pick up medicine for her baby, she doesn’t expect to be tricked into buying poison and supporting criminals. But according to the World Customs Organization, around $200 billion of fake ‒ and potentially harmful ‒ pharmaceuticals are sold every year. In fact, the trade in counterfeit drugs is growing even faster than the official pharmaceutical industry.
#faux_médicaments (un sujet qu’adorent les défenseurs de #big_pharma et des #brevets, car il leur permet de s’habiller en blanc ; mais un sujet bien tristement réel)