Why? Prices are attractive, margins for illegal manufacturers are high, patients bypass prescription requirement, provides «solution» when originals are in a supply bottleneck3
50%
The WHO estimates that 50% of the drugs for sale on the Internet are fake 1
90%
90% of drugs purchased online come from a different country than the website claims 1
97%
Up to 50’000 online pharmacies are in operation, about 97% of which don’t comply with the laws and industry standard created to protect patients 2
«In 2013, the US FDA identified and shut down more then 13’000 websites hosted by illegal online pharmacies2»
Sources:
1 WHO Fact Sheet, November 2017
2 National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, April 2013
3 TERA Research
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