There were counterfeit products being made overseas with the same serial number as a U.S. company, the same packaging.
China is one of the world's largest producers of counterfeit products, ranging from designer clothes, to pirated films and music, to luggage.
Targeting large retailers, he continued to buy counterfeit products and exact compensation.
Last year Australia's highest court shot down a legal challenge from tobacco companies, who argued that the move would cut profits and encourage counterfeit products.
Corporate documents show Mr. Thorkelson's Canada Drugs controls the maze of subsidiaries that procured and shipped the counterfeit products, including Montana Healthcare Solutions and a British wholesaler called River East Supplies Ltd.
Tobacco companies said the Australian ruling -- which would eliminate iconic branding from appearing on the package -- would raise the amount of counterfeit products on the market, eroding government taxes collected on tobacco.
"In France, selling counterfeit products is punishable by a two-year prison term and a 150, 000 euro fine while selling drugs is punishable by a 10-year prison term and a 7, 500, 000 euro fine, " he said.
Judge James Russell found the defendants to have orchestrated large-scale and sophisticated counterfeit manufacturing operations in China and to have imported vast amounts of counterfeit products into Canada with the intent of selling them nationwide in stores, at gift shows and online.
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In the past, federal agencies have unknowingly purchased counterfeit IT products.
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It's true that Hong Kong's back streets and bazaars are loaded with cheap merchandise, but most of it is counterfeit or copycat products of suspicious origin and questionable quality.
It's designed to help consumers and international law-enforcement groups track products that may be counterfeit or were traded illegally.
Other studies have shown that wearing counterfeit versions of brand-name products makes people feel less authentic, and actually increases their likelihood of both behaving dishonesty and distrusting others.
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There were demonstrations that allowed you to play music on headphones, test if products were genuine or counterfeit, or that let you replace your car keys or your house keys with just your phone.
Plain packaging will also exacerbate an already serious counterfeiting problem in parts of the EU. If unregulated, counterfeit cigarette packages are essentially indistinguishable from regulated products, consumers are at greater risk of purchasing dangerous products.
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Big raids inside the U.S., like the one in South Carolina, are rare, however, because 95% of the U.S. counterfeit golf trade is online, with the products delivered directly to individual consumers, according to the group.
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The local authority said a selection of products were scientifically tested, and a counterfeit Max Factor mascara was found to contain more than three times the safe level of lead.
At a hearing last June, an FDA official said the agency does not know how often counterfeit ingredients make their way into U.S. products but that the vast majority of imported bulk drugs are safe and effective.
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The products found at her premises were confirmed to be counterfeit by the relevant brand holders.
Many attribute the opening of counterfeit Apple stores in China due to unmet demand for Apple products in the region.
Britain's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency said it found that 41 out of 167 packs of counterfeit Avastin the British drug wholesaler bought from its Danish counterpart already had been sold to the U.S. The agency quarantined the packs that remained at the British company.
If it cathches one with counterfeit goods it will mete out a punishment, including denial of the drug giant's products--11% of all prescription drugs sold.
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