Counterfeit drugs becoming big business worldwide
Photo credit: AP | This undated photo provided by Genentech shows a counterfeit package for the cancer drug Avastin.
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The discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United States is raising new fears that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S.
The practice has largely been relegated to poor countries with lax regulations. But with more medicines and drug ingredients for sale in the U.S. being manufactured...
