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COMMENT: Closing the gap - counterfeit drugs in turkey - BUSINESS NEW EUROPE

COMMENT: Closing the gap - counterfeit drugs in turkey

Mehmet Gun & Partners, Istanbul
August 6, 2013

The World Health Organisation (WHO) define counterfeit pharmaceutical products as follows: "a counterfeit medicine is one which is deliberately, and fraudulently, mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can apply to both branded and generic products, and counterfeit products may include products with the correct ingredients or with the wrong ingredients, without active ingredients, with insufficient active ingredient or with fake packaging."

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