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Investigating the Trail of Counterfeit Medicine
Nation, page 9
From sore throat and fever tablets to eye drops, numerous pharmacies in China, especially those at the county-level, were found to be stocked with counterfeit drugs. The EO investigated the trail of supplies, discovering that some pharmacies were pressured by distributors into selling fakes. Most of the fake drugs were produced in makeshift backyard factories, with little attention paid to quality but huge efforts invested in packaging them to resemble well-known brands--with a twist.
Original article: [Chinese]