Falsified Medicine Analysis

The Peterson Group

Proliferation
of
counterfeit
medicine market is a great concern
to government regulatory agencies,
pharmaceutical companies, health
care providers and consumers.
However,
its
percentage
is
continuously increasing not only in
poor and developing countries but
also in developed ones.

Unfortunately, counterfeiting
is one of the most underrated
issues in the world that
contributes
largely
to
morbidity, mortality and drug
intoxication of people of
ages, religions and cultures.
One of the reasons why there
is
the
domination
of
counterfeit medicines is the
lack of attention given by the
rightful authorities.

Even with the strict policies,

many national governments are
focused on the smuggling of
illegal drugs such as opium and
heroin in their countries that
the
seemingly
legit
pharmaceutical drugs pass their
investigation.

Cities
know
for
strict
implementation
of
policies
against
smuggled
drugs
includes Jakarta, Indonesia,
Singapore, Victoria, Hong Kong
and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
yet these countries are also
among the countries which
have the highest number of
counterfeit cases.

Only a few and only those dedicated

in this special case give concern for
the worsening number of counterfeit
medicines victims in the world included in this are the non-profit
organizations with the ultimate
advocacy to obliterate the number
of fraudulent cases. In their effort to
eliminate drug counterfeiting from
the main problems of the world,
studies
and
reviews are
being

The Peterson Group, one of these

concerned NGOs has developed
falsified medicine analysis for
years and has reported special
cases vital in determining the
total scale of the problem.
Their falsified medicine analysis
expertise is ideally positioned to
address the highly technical
issues involved in investigating
the increasingly sophisticated
falsified medicines or counterfeit

As a key tool in our pharmaceutical

supply chain surveillance for counterfeit
medicines services, our laboratory
network employ a wide scope of
mass spectrometry
investigative
analytical technology such
(MS)
as:
infra-red
(FTIR)
spectroscopy
RAMAN spectroscopy
nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
spectroscopy
gas
chromatography
mass
spectrometry (GC-MS)
liquid
chromatography
mass
spectrometry (LC-MS)
and more, to explore and assist in the
identification of fake medicines.

With the assistance of advanced

research
labs
funded
by
concerned
pharmaceutical
companies and individuals, these
systems are already underway in
determining
the
impact
of
counterfeit medicines in a region
by region scale.

Some of these methods

may take a lot of time
to produce results but
with proper effort and
support,
falsified
medicine
analysis,
which
seems
too
complicated
in
the
early times, can be

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