If the emergency contraceptive pill you have popped to tide over an “accident” fails to provide the desired result, don’t be surprised: the market is being flooded with fake pills.
Fake tablet manufacturers are making merry as the demand for contraceptive and slimming pills across the country increased in the past few years, speakers at a workshop on Counterfeiting and Piracy said here on Friday.
“Every fifth contraceptive pill or one for weight reduction available in the market is either of sub-standard quality or fake,” said Sajan Poovayya, an advocate and chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
“When there is a huge demand for one particular type of product that product is on high risk as there are chances of it being of a lower quality or faked,” he added while speaking at the workshop organised by the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
According to a 2009 study, women aged between 16 and 35 are mostly the consumers of contraceptive or slimming pills, the second-most pirated products in the country.
Manufacturers of duplicate cosmetics market their wares at bus terminals in city suburbs and rural areas. About 23%-30% of cosmetics are not original.
The speakers at the workshop also pointed out that aggressive marketing strategies of manufacturers had led to an increase in demand, which in turn, encouraged fraudsters to market duplicate products.
According to YG Muralidharan, managing trustee of Consumer Rights Education and Awareness Trust, utter lack of awareness on differentiating fakes from originals among consumers has helped fraudsters.
Source: www.drugscontrol.org
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