Russian counterfeiting

Russia at forefront of new wave of high qaulity fake medicines.

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Not only for sale in Russia, but potentially smuggled into Europe and U.S. Private investigators from Pfizer surveying the Russian market found fakes that were, by the companys own admission, of exceptional quality. "The counterfeits we got in the survey were the finest counterfeits I've ever seen," John Theriault, vice president for global security at Pfizer and a former F.B.I. agent, said.

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