Such counterfeits also find their way into the legitimate supply.
Why not, the Senlis Council and others argue, let Afghanistan join the legitimate supply chain?
So the legitimate supply consisted largely of the corpses of executed criminals, dissected as their final punishment.
In addition, counterfeiters in emerging markets can infiltrate the legitimate supply chain by submitting falsified paperwork and lying about where the drugs originated.
This offers those with dodgy minerals to sell plenty of weak points where their tainted goods can be mixed into legitimate supply chains.
The kickback scheme worked, they said, because the payoffs could be included in otherwise legitimate supply contracts negotiated directly by the former government and then transferred to Iraq once the United Nations released funds to pay the suppliers.
The GLA's chief executive, Paul Broadbent, said: "No matter how robust and secure company systems and structures are, organised criminality can and will infiltrate the legitimate supply chains in their endeavours to exploit workers.
Ronald Noble, the head of INTERPOL, reckons this will eventually make it tougher for, say, producers of counterfeit pharmaceuticals to get their fakes into legitimate supply chains.Asked where Google will focus its efforts in future, Eric Schmidt, the firm's executive chairman, gives a cautious answer.
Yes, Viagra still tops the list of knock-offs seen by Pfizer, says John Clark, the American drug firm's global head of security; but fake versions of at least 20 of its products (including Lipitor, a blockbuster cholesterol drug) have been detected in the legitimate supply chains of at least 44 countries.
But, this year the day falls at a time of renewed discussion of the diamond industry's vaunted certification scheme, known as the Kimberley Process, which was initiated in 2003 to prevent so-called blood diamonds mined in civil war zones from entering the legitimate supply chain stretching from mines to cutting rooms and on to engagement rings and other baubles sold in the world's best stores.
