500 tonnes of counterfeit medicine worth more than 14 million USD were intercepted last month in a global operation involving 116 countries, reports Interpol. The operation, dubbed PANEA, has been the sixth of its kind: Despite resulting in over 800 arrests, the global trade of fake drugs has been a persistent problem for many years. Can new regulation and technology involving serialisation and traceability of drugs restore consumer safety and trust in the the pharmaceutical market?
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