Countering the problem of falsified and substandard drugs / Committee on Understanding the Global Public Health Implications of Substandard, Falsified, and Counterfeit Medical Products, Board on Global Health ; Gillian J. Buckley and Lawrence O. Gostin, editors ; Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.

"The adulteration and fraudulent manufacture of medicines is an old problem, vastly aggravated by modern manufacturing and trade. In the last decade, impotent antimicrobial drugs have compromised the treatment of many deadly diseases in poor countries. More recently, negligent production at a Massac...

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