If we talk about the reason behind the manufacturing of counterfeit medicines, the foremost reason is greed. The suppliers of these untrusted products are the manufacturers or sellers who want only money by hook or crook.
These medicines have a low cost of manufacturing as cheap alternative ingredients are used in them. Hence, the profit margin is high as compared to generic or patented medicines. The suppliers misuse the name of established brands and sell the exact copy of the medication and fool them.
This is a fraudulent activity and causes loss to the pharmacy industry. The medicines ordered online from untrusted suppliers are more likely to be counterfeit than those purchased from physical stores.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is developing a pedigree system to identify counterfeit medicine in the market by tracking the batches from factory to pharmacy.
Radio-frequency identification is another technology that identifies the RFID tags attached to a product batch.