Drug Companies Moving To Stop Fake ED Drugs

Some of the largest drug companies in the world are restructuring their supply network in a bid to beat the big problem of counterfeit drug and medicines entering the legitimate supply chain. The criminals that make fake drugs especially erectile dysfunction drugs have become very skilled at making the drugs and the packaging look 100% identical to the real thing. A senior executive from Cialis was quoted as saying he was ‘amazed’ that the real and the fake drugs and packaging looked so similar.

In September the world biggest drug maker Pfizer announced that it would be ‘rationalising’ the supply network that it uses in the UK and gave the sole distribution of all its drugs Alliance UniChem. The idea is that having one distributor lessens the chances of illegal and fake drugs entering the supply chain and so Pfizer can keep a closer eye on what is sold and distributed.

The distribution of drugs is a big business will millions of pounds worth being moved all over the country everyday from factories to hospitals and chemists. The most copied drug in the world is Pfizer’s Viagra with most of the copies being made and sold in the Far East and India. However recent drugs hauls by the UK police have shown the issue is not limited to that part of the world only and fake impotence medicines are being regularly intercepted in the United Kingdom.

Eli Lilly that makes the second most successful erectile dysfunction medicine Cialis also is considering changing the way it distributes its famous impotence medicine and also all of its other drugs. There are over 12,000 pharmacies in the UK as well as hundreds of hospitals and doctors who dispense medicines. Other drug firms are likely to follow suit and start to consolidate their supply network soon to beat the growing counterfeit problem.