Category: Patient Safety

Medicines top counterfeit concern list in Europe - consumers call for tougher safety measures

November 20, 2009 by neondrum

London, 19 November 2009 – Research published today examining consumer opinions on counterfeit drugs reveals that five per cent of consumers across five European countries suspect they have received a counterfeit prescription drug and an alarming one per cent believe they definitely have. This means that as many as 12.8 million consumers could have been exposed to counterfeit drugs in those markets.