Source: Correio Braziliense - DF - 09/08/2009

Pirate drugs are produced in distant factories, more enter the market
Brazil without difficulties Until it reaches the hands of the Brazilian consumer, medicines and
counterfeit equipment goes a long way, which starts on the other side of the
globe. Manufacturing is carried out in countries where inspection is nil, in
Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, People's Republic of China, India,
Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the National Surveillance Agency
Health (Anvisa), in those countries producers receive orders and the
dispatch to consumer markets. Perfectionism is so much that prostheses and
counterfeit medicines are already packaged with the appropriate language for the
destiny.

Created a little over two years ago, the Institutional Security Advisory of
agency ensures that, until then, it had not been found in the territory
more sophisticated structure for the assembly of medical equipment or
adulteration of medicines on a large scale. But there are signs that the origin of
piracy is not so far away. Anvisa received the information that a
Chinese flag ship, located 200 miles off the Brazilian coast, produces
materials such as syringes and disposable needles without control.

The floating factory operates 24 hours a day and takes advantage of labor
cheap to flood the Brazilian market with counterfeit products. To avoid
tracking and repression, criminals move the vessel from time to time
times. And Anvisa cannot do anything.

Criminal organizations specializing in health piracy use
same routes explored by other groups that bring weapons to Brazil,
drugs and electronic products. Products arrive through legal and illegal ports,
to then be taken to the borders, almost always without adequate conditions of
inspection. The route includes both the busiest, example from Paraguay and
Uruguay, as the most remote, as in Bolivia.

Most populous and most developed state in the country, São Paulo is a leader in
preference of criminal groups when dumping products in the territory
Brazilian. Hundreds of middlemen cross the Friendship Bridge, which separates Foz
do Iguaçu, in Paraná, and Ciudad del Leste, in Paraguay, to search for goods
that will supply the state considered by the distributor of medicines and
death equipment. The task is not difficult. About 80 thousand cars and motorcycles
make the crossing daily.

Across the border with Uruguay, criminals supply Rio Grande do Sul and
Paraná. On the forgotten border with Bolivia, a new route is established by
Cáceres, in Mato Grosso, from San Mathias, a city in the neighboring country. We
In both cases, products are also dumped in other states along the way.
to São Paulo. It is from there that middlemen, facade distributors and pharmacies
criminals are in charge of passing on products to other companies, mainly
Minas and Rio. Anvisa's seizure map shows that, after that,
products reach consumers quickly. In the past 18 months alone,
agency was asked to act in 73 municipalities from North to South of the country.