The Fake Drug Industry Is Exploding, and We Can’t Do Anything About It - Newsweek

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. . ."many experts believe that the problem is on the rise and that more criminals are turning to pharmaceuticals for a simple reason: low risk and high reward. “The penalties are relatively weak for trading in falsified pharmaceuticals compared to those for trade in narcotics and human trafficking,” says Paul Newton, a professor of tropical medicine at the University of Oxford medical school who has spent decades tracking poor-quality medicines. And criminals can make a lot of money by falsifying drugs that are in high demand, in short supply or are exorbitantly expensive for consumers."

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FDA - News & Events > From our perspective: Assessing, safeguarding pharmaceutical quality

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"Lucinda Buhse, PhD, acting director, Office of Testing and Research, Office of Pharmaceutical Science, discusses efforts underway in FDA’s laboratories to help assure high-quality drug products are available for the public."

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The article covers:

• Assessing pharmaceutical quality
• Measuring pharmaceutical quality across the drug lifecycle
• FDA’s additional roles in safeguarding quality
• Research and innovation in CDER’s drug quality testing program
• Continuing to help protect consumers from harm

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SecuringIndustry.com - USP starts field trials of FDA fake drug screening device

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"The US Pharmacopeial Convention has started field testing a new low-cost screening device designed to detect counterfeit and poor quality medicines quickly.

The handheld CD-3+ unit - originally developed by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - uses multiple light sources to look at packaging using different wavelengths and provide images that can be interpreted by the user to differentiate between genuine and falsified medicines. The approach may also be applicable to individual tablets."

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