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April 30, 2014

A suburban New York pharmaceutical company sold more than $17 million in counterfeit, misbranded or unapproved drugs, including...

April 30, 2014

Illegal tobacco ring dismantled, Police say 28 arrests and $7 million in contraband seized; ring linked to Mafia, aboriginal...

April 20, 2014

The authorities in Dubai have seized 1.4m counterfeit cosmetics and personal care products with an estimated market value of AED...

April 19, 2014

In 2011, the European Union defined a number of measures in its Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) to prevent counterfeit or...

April 17, 2014

A new book that provides practical advice to businesses at risk of online attacks such as ‘cybersquatting’ has been...

April 17, 2014

A 25-year-old Charlottetown man who smuggled drugs, tobacco, rolling papers and even a cigarette lighter into jail in his rectum...

April 17, 2014

A 24 year old woman has been arrested by Phitshane Molopo Police, in connection to a case in which Tobacco worth 200 Thousand...

April 16, 2014

Big supermarket chains and small dairy owners are warning plain tobacco packaging will slash their profits, and fuel the black...

April 16, 2014

EU regulators have issued a warning that several batches of the cancer medicine Herceptin (trastuzumab) have been “tampered...

April 14, 2014

Chemical engineers hope smartphone-readable microparticles could crack down on counterfeiting. Some 2 to 5 percent of all...

April 14, 2014

What about a smartphone-readable device that can help authenticate currency, electronic parts and luxury goods to minimise...

April 13, 2014

Mumbai: The spurt in gold and drugs smuggling cases has prompted Mumbai Airport Customs to seek a separate data server of air...