counterfeit medicine
- Guideline or reference source
- EMA Glossary of terms
- WHO Glossary
- Definition
- A medicine made by someone other than the genuine manufacturer, by copying or imitating an original product without authority or rights. Counterfeit medicines infringe trademark law. WHO: Counterfeits may include products with correct ingredients/components, with wrong ingredients/components, without active ingredients, with incorrect amounts of active ingredients, or with fake packaging. Medicines that are not authorised for marketing in a given country but authorised elsewhere are not considered counterfeit.
- Related Term
- falsified medicine
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