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What International Experts Are Saying About Counterfeit Medicines

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that up to “10 percent of medicines available globally are counterfeits, posing a serious health hazard.”

The WHO also reports that criminal organizations stand to profit billions of dollars from the sale of fake and substandard drugs.

In fact, the Center for Medicines in the Public Interest estimated that counterfeit drug sales will reach $75 billion globally in 2010, an increase of more than 90 percent from 2005.

If Congress were to open up America’s relatively closed distribution system – by allowing wholesalers, pharmacies and others to import potentially dangerous and counterfeit foreign medicines – patient health and safety could be put at risk.