"Malaria tablets, heart treatment medication and H1N1 vaccines are among the drugs being sold in counterfeit form, making up 10 percent of worldwide pharmaceutical sales, according to ... Chirac," the news service reports. The article includes comments by Ilisa Bernstein, deputy director of the office of compliance at the FDA, and Roger Bate, an economist who writes about the issue at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (6/24).

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