health.yahoo.com — Pharmaceuticals in the European Union will be traceable from factory to pharmacy in a bid to crack down on the rise in counterfeit drugs, which are potentially lethal, the bloc's executive said on Wednesday. EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen said the 27-nation bloc used to be a transit area for counterfeit medicines being shipped to third countries but was now a target. "It's a huge threat to public health and can cost people's lives in some cases," Verheugen told the European Parliament. "The (European) Commission will come up with a legal act to tighten up the framework," Verheugen said. The Commission has said Switzerland, home to some of the world's top pharmaceutical firms, surprisingly topped the table of origins of fake medicines, ahead of India.
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