Researchers demand severe punishment for counterfeit medicine

Pharmacists have warned of the increasing cases of counterfeit medicine entering the market. [iStockphoto, Standard]

Researchers from the University of Ottawa and the American Enterprise Institute are rooting for a law that would make counterfeiting medicine a crime against humanity under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Under the ICC statute, there are various crimes against humanity, which are, by their nature, committed by private criminal organisations as well as by countries.