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"In November 2008, children in Nigeria taking a medicine called My Pikin Baby Teething Mixture began to die. The syrup was counterfeit, the standard glycerin replaced with cheaper diethylene glycol, which looks, smells and tastes the same. But diethylene glycol is an industrial solvent, which attacks the central nervous system, kidneys and liver. The medicine killed 84 children before it was pulled from pharmacy shelves."
Rarely do consumers in the United States have to give a thought to whether their medicine is counterfeit or real. In the developing world, this issue is a real and present danger. The New York Times published a great piece by Tina Rosenberg on how Sproxil is using readily-available technology to tackle the issue of pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
Read the full article here.
Rarely do consumers in the United States have to give a thought to whether their medicine is counterfeit or real. In the developing world, this issue is a real and present danger. The New York Times published a great piece by Tina Rosenberg on how Sproxil is using readily-available technology to tackle the issue of pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
Read the full article here.
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