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Recently, according to the State Food and Drug Administration published: year 2004, China has investigated 246,000 cases of counterfeit drugs, involving 360 million yuan worth. Coincidentally, the World Health Organization spokesman in Geneva a few days ago that the global pharmaceutical sales, counterfeits account for 10% of its annual sales reaching as high as 32 billion U.S. dollars. The manufacture and sale of counterfeit drugs are so rampant, to the people's physical and psychological harm caused to the state economy loss is not measured.

Severely crack down on counterfeit drugs, though the national responsibilities of the specialized agencies, however, as consumers also need to have some simple and effective method of identification.

■ See Approval Number

Since the provisions of the State Food and Drug Administration in June 2003 after 30 implementation of the new drugs produced by the approval number, revocation of the original approval number [× Wei medicine accurate] and [× Wei drug key word]. The newly approved document number format is: Country medicine accurate phonetic alphabet +8 bit +1 bit numbers, letters, spelling the word with the head in type of drug, drug production numbers indicate approval of the department, year and sequence number. Abolition of the approval of fake drugs often use the symbol.

■ look at the manufacturer

According to the Food and Drug Administration regulations, regulating pharmaceutical manufacturers instructions must specify the name, address, zip code, telephone number, fax number, website and so on, to facilitate contact identified in patients with true or false. Counterfeit drugs in the content of such projects are often incomplete.

■ look at drug packaging

Qualified drug packaging material is good, clear fonts, and design, printing chromatic exquisite, color uniform, smooth surface, anti-counterfeiting marks bright. Counterfeit packaging material difference, fonts, and printing rough patterns, color blunt, anti-counterfeiting marks blur.

■ Manual on Drugs

Specification qualified medicine a good paper, printing and publishing uniform, even the smallest fonts are also very clear, the content accurate and complete, indications strictly limited. The counterfeit paper specification of poor quality, illegible, incomplete content, arranged in error, exaggerate the efficacy and adaptability.

■ see lot numbers and dates

Qualified shall be marked on the packaging of drugs [product lot number], [date of production], [valid until] three indispensable, writing mostly laser printing. Counterfeit drugs in the lack of regular three 1-2, but mostly mimeographed printed handwriting.

■ Appearance on Drugs

Carefully observed the appearance of counterfeit drugs, often the following problems:

Tablets: tablets color uneven discoloration, blotches, adhesion, loose films, deliquescence, etc.; sugar-coated tablet surface exposed at the end of fade, crack, mildew.

Injection: There is color, turbidity, sedimentation, crystallization, floc, etc..

SL: There is precipitation, crystallization, mold, floc.

Granules: There is sticky, agglomeration, melting, particle uneven.

Pasty: There is water loss, dry, water-oil separation, the smell of oil lost.

In order to beware of buying fake fooled, the majority of patients should be noted that the legal formal medical institutions and pharmacies to buy, but also save a good drug packaging, brochures and invoices. Plan must not facilitate or get petty to go into "medical institution permits" clinic or no "Drug operating permits" purchased at pharmacies. Guard against the name of free lectures, gifts, a volunteer signs, the actual selling counterfeit fraud; do not believe that the illegal advertising mail-order drugs