Yahoo Fails to Address Counterfeit Drugs in Remarks to FDA

March 25, 2010

At the end of February, the Partnership for Safe Medicines (PSM) answered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) call for comments on their docket concerning the Promotion of FDA-Regulated Medical Products Using the Internet and Social Media Tools. We submitted our recommendations on the tail of Google’s change to its online advertising policies, requiring…

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European Coding System Looks to Combat Counterfeits: Part One

December 18, 2009

In October 2009, the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) announced its pilot project—a coding system aimed at reducing the risk of counterfeit drugs dispensed to patients. The project entails the use of a small barcode to verify individual packs of medicine, aiming for an end-to-end tracking, which allows the pack to be…

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Who is PharmacyChecker? Checking the Facts on PharmacyChecker.com

December 15, 2009

Who is PharmacyChecker.com? PharmacyChecker is a company that provided online pharmacy certification services for the major search engines until 2010. Why did the search engines stop using PharmacyChecker’s services? None of the search engines gave a public reason for ending their relationship with PharmacyChecker.  Several experts in the field, including our own Bryan Liang, criticized…

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USC Spotlight on Counterfeit Drugs and Devices

October 23, 2009

On November 18, 2009, the University of Southern California (USC) will offer a one-day course called “Building Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting Programs.” The course will be taught by experts from the field and will examine the nature of the criminal challenge, government and industry roles and responsibilities and technologies that can be used to disrupt the production…

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Shabby Standards

July 25, 2008

Bryan A.  Liang, MD, PhD, JD 

Earlier this week, I talked about India's opposition to IMPACT's proposed definition of a counterfeit medicine.  Indian "experts" claimed it would hurt their generic drug industry's exports, and I asked just who these "experts" were protecting if the IMPACT's focus was only non-legitimate producers.  

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Government & Multilateral Initiatives

October 25, 2007

Government & Multilateral Initiatives The fight against counterfeit medicines is a global one, involving many governmental and inter-governmental organizations. This page provides a guide to those organizations. If you would like to add an initiative to this page, please contact us. World Health Organization Counterfeit medicines. Fact Sheet No. 275. Updated February 2006. General Information…

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Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the American Bar Association, Section on Intellectual Property Law

June 22, 2006

  Thank you, Mr. Figg, for that introduction. I thank the ABA Section on Intellectual Property Law for arranging my presentation, and I appreciate the opportunity to speak to you today. Two hundred and fifty billion dollars in annual losses, and seven hundred and fifty thousand lost jobs. These are among the many costs of intellectual property theft…

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New Canadian Anti-Counterfeiting Network will help stop Canada’s growing trade in counterfeit goods

May 12, 2006

TORONTO, May 3 /CNW/ – CSA International, in cooperation with the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC) and other anti- counterfeiting experts, today officially launched the Canadian Anti- Counterfeiting Network (CACN), a new coalition that focuses on the prevention and elimination of counterfeit and pirated goods in Canada. “Counterfeiting can kill, and no person or nation is exempt from…

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