As reported by the Dow Jones News Service, "Drug counterfeiting has been underestimated for too long, Sanofi-Aventis Chairman said Thursday, also calling for more action from the European Union."
At the annual meeting of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations, Jean-Francois Dehecq said that "drug counterfeiting 'used to be marginal, it is now totally industrialized.'" Counterfeit pharmaceuticals "represented approximately EUR45 billion in sales in 2006, making up for almost 10 percent of the world pharmaceutical market the World Health Organization estimates.
Link to the full story at Dow Jones.
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