New Report Highlights Concern Over Growing Problem of Counterfeit Drugs in the EU

July 3, 2008 - PRLog -- Piribo, the online destination for business intelligence for the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, has now added a report offering a comprehensive guidance to the issues concerning pharmaceutical counterfeiting which is estimated to affect up to 10% of all drugs.

The report “Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting in the EU: Where Are We Now?”, which is available at http://tinyurl.com/67wsst explores the problem of pharmaceutical counterfeiting which no longer is just a scourge on the developing world, but affects industrialised nations including the member states of the European Union.

Highlighting the difficulties international and national organisations as well as governmental authorities have experienced in establishing reliable statistics regarding the size of the phenomenon, authors of the report discusses the extent of the problem and explores the many varied forms counterfeiting can take.  

The report also explains what is being done to tackle the issue and allows the reader to:
- Understand the problem: both the types and the scope of the threat
- Protect intellectual property rights
- Know where to turn for help with this issue
- Get ideas to how the company can tackle the problem
- Keep up-to-date with the many anti-counterfeiting initiatives and laws
- Tackle the threat posed by the internet
- Ensure packaging and labelling is compliant and tamper-proof
- Find the best anti-counterfeiting solution

The report “Pharmaceutical Counterfeiting in the EU: Where Are We Now?” is available in pdf format from Piribo:
http://www.piribo.com/publications/general_industry/pharm...

Piribo product ID: SCR018

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Piribo (http://www.piribo.com/publications/general_industry) is a UK-based independent online store supplying business information on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. The website now carries over 9,000 English language titles including, market reports, studies and books and is the UK's largest online biopharma information store. Subscribers receive a free monthly newsletter and email alerts on new titles in their areas of interest. The company was established in 2004.