INTERPOL LAUNCHES NEW PHARMA CRIME UNIT WITH HELP FROM INDUSTRY
March 1st, 2013
INTERNATIONAL police agency Interpol is to create a pharmaceutical crime programme after striking a three year funding deal with 29 medicine manufacturers. The programme will build on the work of Interpol’s existing medical product counterfeiting and pharmaceutical crime (MPCPC) unit. An Interpol note said this new initiative would “focus on the prevention of all types of pharmaceutical crime including branded and generic drug counterfeiting as well as the identification and dismantling of organised crime networks linked to this illegal activity, which ...
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