An analysis of the 3,147 incidents occurring in CY 2016 disclosed:
- Pharmaceuticals in every therapeutic category were targeted by criminals
- 1,258 different medicines were involved in these incidents
- In comparison to CY 2015, this represented a fifteen percent increase (+15)
- As many as sixty-four different medicines were discovered in a single incident
When examining counterfeiting incidents only, medicines in the genito-urinary, anti-infectives and central nervous system (CNS) therapeutic categories were the most frequently targeted by individuals engaged in pharmaceutical counterfeiting.
