Which of the following Organisation has dropped the term counterfeit and retained falsified to describe medicines of inferior quality.

2016

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Which of the following Organisation has dropped the term ‘counterfeit’ and retained ‘falsified’ to describe medicines of inferior quality.

A	PAHO
B	UNICEF
C	USAID
D	WHO

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Falsified medicines are not the same as counterfeit medicines: Falsified medicines are fake medicines that are designed to mimic real medicines. Counterfeit medicines are medicines that do not comply with intellectual-property rights or that infringe trademark law.

Detailed explanation-2: -The World Health Organization (WHO) defines ‘substandard’ medical products as those which are authorised but fail to meet their quality standards or specifications and defines ‘falsified’ medical products as those that deliberately/fraudulently misrepresent their identity, composition or source1.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is a drug which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and/or source or with fake packaging, and can apply to both branded and generic products.

Detailed explanation-4: -reporting suspicious medical products to your National Medicines Regulatory Authority.

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