An analysis of the 5,987 incidents occurring in CY 2021 disclosed:

 

• Pharmaceuticals in every therapeutic category were targeted by criminals

 

• 3,160 different medicines were involved in these incidents

 

• This represented a twenty-nine percent increase (+29%) over CY 2020

 

• As many as 129 different medicines were discovered in a single incident

 

The categories most frequently targeted by individuals engaged in pharmaceutical counterfeiting were genito-urinary, central nervous system (CNS), and anti-infectives.

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