Mary Poppins to Help Thwart Pharmaceutical Counterfeiters

CandyCodes (© UC Riverside Prof. William Grover).

CandyCodes (© UC Riverside Prof. William Grover).

Pharmaceuticals are among the most heavily counterfeited goods on the planet and, according to the OECD and the EUIPO, are ‘attractive for counterfeiters given the high profit margins, low risks of detection and prosecution, weak penalties, and the ease with which consumers can be deceived into believing that the counterfeit products are genuine.’