Forensic pharmacovigilance and substandard or counterfeit drugs.

Forensic pharmacovigilance and substandard or counterfeit drugs. Int J Risk Saf Med. 2012;24(1):37-9 Authors: Labadie J Abstract Identification of harm in the form of adverse drug reactions that are caused by counterfeit or other substandard medicinal products by application of standard pharmacovigillance methods of registration, analysis and investigation could be forensic pharmacovigillance. As recent example of this type of forensic pharmacovigilance is the discovery and investigation into the adverse drug reactions caused by contaminated heparin in the USA in 2008 is discussed. PMID: 22436258 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Tags: Int J Risk Saf Med Source Type: research