Customs crackdown on fake medicines

The World Customs
Organisation (WCO) is
achieving results in its fight
against fake medicines on the
African continent.
In conjunction with the
International Institute for
Research Against Counterfeit
Medicines (IRACM), a
record 113 million illicit
and potentially dangerous
pharmaceutical products
were seized as part of
Operation ACIM (Action
against Counterfeit and Illicit
Medicines) in September last
year.
Over the past four
years, four operations have
been undertaken during
which nearly 900 million
pharmaceutical products have
been seized.
Operation ACIM
mobilised 16 African customs
administrations over a
ten-day period to inspect
simultaneously in the main
ports on the continent cargoes
identified as likely to contain
illicit products.