Gubernskie Apteki finds its way to prevent sale of counterfeit medicines
Gubernskie Apteki, a state-owned pharmaceutical network, has worked out a multi-level system to rule out the sale of counterfeit medicines in the company's drugstores, Gubernskie Apteki Director General Vadim Yudin announced.
According to Yudin, the problem of counterfeit medicines is very acute for drugstores all over Russia. Official reports show that Russia is world's second on the amount of counterfeit medicines. Annual sales volume of counterfeit medicines is $200-300 million in our country. The General Prosecutor's Office has taken the problem under its special control, charging the Federal Healthcare Inspectorate, Ministry for Internal Affairs and prosecutors of federal entities to take measures to prevent import, production, wholesale and retail sale of counterfeit medicines and goods.
1 March 2007