Counterfeit medicines are the fake/fraud medicines which might contain adulterated or wrong ingredients or in low concentration or might not even contain any active ingredient. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines “Substandard / Spurious / Falsely labeled/ Falsified / Counterfeit (SSFFC) medical products” as medical products that are outside of specifications, which includes intentional, reckless or negligent errors, false packaging, and those intended to deliberately deceive and imitate a genuine product (WHO, n.d.).

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