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Title : Seen and heard: counterfeiting news in brief
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Source : SecuringIndustry.com
Year : 2017
Link : https://www.securingindustry.com/pharmaceuticals/seen-and-heard-counterfeiting-news-in-brief/s40/a5496/
Country : World
Commodity: All Food
Abstract: Illicit drugs and tobacco in Pakistan; fake glucose strips, mobile food labs in India and Irish fake alcohol seizures. Pakistan and USP set up post-market surveillance system for drugs The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has unveiled plans to set up a post-marketing surveillance system for drugs with the assistance of the US Pharmacopeial Convention's Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) programme, says Pakistan Today. The DRAP said the system will need the involvement of regulators, pharmaceutical companies, medical professionals, doctors, pharmacists and nurses if it is to be effective in fighting falsified and substandard medicines. J&J wins permanent injunction against glucose strip copiers The US District Court for the Eastern District of New York granted J&J subsidiary LifeScan a permanent injunction against several companies that sell "potentially deadly" versions of its OneTouch glucose strips, used by diabetics to monitor blood sugar levels. The latest round in the long-running legal dispute, which dates back to 2015, focuses on Chinese companies that have been selling the test strips "throughout the US and abroad," according to Life Sciences IP Review.