Abstract
In the almost 40 years since counterfeiting of pharmaceutical products was recognised as a problem by the World Health Organization (WHO), the industry has waged a constant battle against increasingly sophisticated and organised counterfeiters, with drug packaging serving as one of its foremost defences. The true extent of the counterfeiting is unknown, since no global study has ever been carried out, but according to WHO estimates, up to 15% of all medicines are counterfeit and there was a recorded rise of 92% in seizures of falsified medicines between 2005 and 2011.
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References
1.WHO, International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT), www.who.int/impact/en/ (accessed 28 July 2015) .