COUNTERFEIT

[:ru]Блинов В. П.[:en]Blinov V. P.[:] [:ru]канд. техн. наук, заместитель председателя Межотраслевого совета по техническому регулированию, Москва, Россия[:en]Сand. Eng. Sc., Vice-chairman of Intersectoral Council on Technical Regulation, Moscow, Russia[:]

Alitinform №6 (37) 2014 г. 90-94 p.

Abstract

Today the turnover of counterfeit products in the world is a real challenge to the world economy, as every year the production of fakes is growing by more than 20 %. It is predicted that such high rates will remain until 2015, while the volume of world counterfeit could reach $ 1.7 trillion.
The report of European Commissioner for Revenue and Customs, Algirdas Semeta, shows the amount of € 1.3 billion of confiscated counterfeit products (about 115 million fakes) in 2011. These are medications — 24 % of the total number of counterfeits, packaging — 21 %, cigarettes — 18 %. The rest are food, cosmetics, toys and building materials which are not infrequently pose a serious health hazard. Roughly three-quarters of counterfeit goods were manufactured in China, the majority of fake food — in Turkey, alcoholic beverages in Panama, mobile phones in Hong Kong [1].