Illegal online pharmacies cause losses to pharmaceutical manufacturers
Losses amounting to several billions of euros are caused to official pharmaceutical companies annually by tens of thousands of online pharmacies.
Illegal medicines bought from the Internet are often stolen or counterfeit drugs, and frequently the contents of these cheap copies is not what it should be. According to the World Health Organization WHO, around 10 per cent of the medicines sold worldwide are pirated drugs.
27 August 2007