Helping your patients avoid counterfeit medicines

Family Practice Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 33-35

  Teichman, Peter G ^a  

^a Victoria Healthcare My My International Clinic   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG PACKAGING; FORGERY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; LEGAL ASPECT; MARKETING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCRIPTION; SAFETY; SHORT SURVEY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG PACKAGING; FRAUD; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERNET; MARKETING; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SECURITY MEASURES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947683234     PISSN: 10695648     EISSN: 15311929     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

References (8)

1. World Health Organization. Counterfeit medicines: Fact sheet No. 275. Available at: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs275/en. Accessed Jan. 15, 2007.
2. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Combating Counterfeit Drugs: A Report of the Food and Drug Administration. February 2004. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/counterfeit/report02_04.html. Accessed Jan. 15, 2007.
3. Charatan F. Fake prescription drugs are flooding the United States. BMJ. 2001;322:1446.
4. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Buyer Beware: The Danger of Purchasing Pharmaceuticals Over the Internet (hearing report). June 17, 2004.
5. Government of Ontario Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Chief Coroner makes recommendations resulting from investigation into 11 Hamilton deaths (news release). Available at: http://ogov.newswire.ca/ ontario/GPOE/2006/01/09/c0820.html. Accessed Jan. 15, 2007.
6. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. FDA warns consumers not to buy or use prescription drugs from various Canadian Web sites that apparently sell counterfeit products (news release). Aug. 30, 2006. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01441.html. Accessed Jan. 15, 2007.
7. United States Customs and Border Protection. Medication/drugs. Available at: http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/clearing_goods/restricted/ medication_drugs.xml. Accessed Jan. 15, 2007.
8. U.S. Department of State. Consular Information Sheet: Mexico. Available at: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_970.html. Accessed Jan. 15, 2006.