On The Trail of Counterfeit Drugs in China [[Bejing, China]]
A trip down to a village pharmacy recently alerted Wang Yansheng – a traditional medicine practitioner – of the far-reaching infiltration of counterfeit drugs in China's rural areas.
To relieve his father's chronic throat problem, Wang asked for a popular brand of Chinese herbal medicine at the pharmacy in Anhui countryside. Instead, he inadvertently took home counterfeits.
By
Wang Yan'an
27 February 2009