Counterfeiting confidence: 15% of drugs sold are fake
The widespread manufacture and sale of spurious drugs in India places the people at serious risk. According to several reports, out of the total organised medicines market of Rs 30,000 crore, the spurious drugs alone account for almost 15% of the medicines sold in the country.
Considering the huge market for spurious drugs, most people are, on a day to day basis, exposed to the very dangerous possibility of consuming fatal sub-standard drugs.
By Amitabh Baxi
18 November 2007