Press Release: The EU launches a new project to fight falsified medicines in developing countries

On 4 April 2014, ahead of World Health Day on April 7 2014, the European Union launched a new project which will support the fight against the production and the trafficking in falsified medicines in Cameroon, Ghana, Jordan, Morocco and Senegal, which are situated along two of the main routes for the production and trafficking in falsified medicines (from Arabian Peninsula and Middle East to West/Central Africa; from East/Horn of Africa, via Yemen and Sudan, to Central Africa).

Falsified medicines are a major threat to public health and safety as they usually contain ingredients which are of bad quality, in the wrong dose or simply ineffective, and in some cases even toxic.

• Primary Source

European Commission: RAPID: MEMO/14/257: World Health Day 2014: EU-funded research to fight vector-borne diseases http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-14-257_en.pdf

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