Counterfeit medicine. A threat to health. Legal situation
- Carlos del Castillo Rodríguez
- María Jesús Lozano Estevan
ISSN: 1697-4298, 0034-0618
Ano de publicación: 2015
Volume: 81
Número: 4
Páxinas: 329-333
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Anales de la Real Academia Nacional de Farmacia
Resumo
The existence of substandard, spurious, falsely labelled, falsified and counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products is an unacceptable risk to public health, becoming an emerging problem in recent years. However, we should be aware that the phenomenon of counterfeiting is not a novelty since such practice coexists with human beings since time immemorial. In the present work we will do a partial analysis of counterfeiting situation from a legislative point of view and will analyze how various legal and non-legal instruments have been used trying to resolve this issue in the European context.