COUNTERFEITING isn’t often a matter of life and death. But at an international conference on product piracy last month, the deadly potential of fake goods was on everyone’s mind.
The wake-up call came from China, where dozens of babies have died and hundreds are suffering malnutrition after being fed counterfeit formula milk with no nutritional value. Parents and carers were unwittingly feeding their babies on nothing but water.
Coming just a week before the first Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting, held in Brussels on 28 May, the affair brought the potential risks of piracy into sharp relief. Run by Interpol…
