Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has launched an English-language version of TaoProtect, one of its counterfeit reporting system.
And Facebook and Instagram took down 2,776,665 pieces of content based on 373,934 copyright reports, 222,226 pieces of content based on 61,172 trademark reports and 459,176 pieces of content based on 28,680 counterfeit reports.
A total of 127 (64.8%) of a total of 196 countries had no legitimate supply chain CIS counterfeit reports.
We assess counterfeit reports involving the legitimate supply chain using 2009 2011 data from the Pharmaceutical Security Institute Counterfeit Incident System (PSI CIS) database that uses both open and nonpublic data sources.
For serious wine drinkers, collector Russell Frye also created Wineauthentication.com, a website that provides the latest news and information that includes a section on the most recent counterfeits reported.
Otherwise, contact the brand-name manufacturer whose product has been counterfeited, or report the suspected counterfeit to one of the organizations listed in the External Links section below.
When assessing regional distribution of CIS legitimate supply chain penetration reports for individual countries with at least one Counterfeit Incident reported in CIS (N = 69 total countries) using both UN region (Asia, Americas, Africa, Europe, and Oceania) and subregions, we found that Asia (42.0%, N = 29) makes up the majority of Counterfeit Incident reports.
For example, certain countries with high frequency of CIS legitimate supply chain Counterfeit Incident reports may have active inspection regimes and/or better public sector reporting compared with other countries where incidents were not detected.
Upper and lower middle income countries comprise 93% (N = 911 + 501 = 1,412/1,510) of all CIS Counterfeit Incident reports in the legitimate supply (noting the high number of reports from China).
This is notable given that noncommunicable disease, branded products are likely the focus of internal member-based CIS database reporting, yet still are found with a lower number of Detected Counterfeit Medicines reports than anti-infectives.
