The document summarizes a conference held on October 15, 2010 by the Mutualité Française, Fondation Chirac, and Fondation Pierre Fabre on combating fake medicines. It discusses suggestions from the conference to fight fake medicines, including improving distribution channel safety, creating national medicine quality control labs, training lab personnel, promoting collaboration between labs, developing generic drug production, harmonizing legislation across European states, and harmonizing medication and customs standards through regional integration in developing countries.

1. October 2010
Access to quality medicines
and healthcare
The proceedings from the conference
“How to fight falsified medicines”
Mutualité Française, 15th October 2010
On 15th October 2010, the Mutualité Française, in partnership with the Fondation Chirac
and the Fondation Pierre Fabre, organized a conference on fake medicines. !
Download the summary report of the conference:
http://www.fondationchirac.eu/wp-content/uploads/Les-Actes-du-colloque-de-la-
Mutualité-Française-Le-trafic-des-faux-médicaments-comment-le-combattre.pdf
Several suggestions in fighting against fake medicines:
• Improvement and safety reinforcement of distribution channels
• The systematic creation of national quality control laboratories for medicines
• Expert level training for laboratory personnel
• The promotion of South-South collaboration between quality control laboratories
• The development of the production of generic medicines
• The harmonization of legislation of 47 member states of th Council of Europe
• The harmonization of standards for the market entry of medication and
customs regulations, thanks to stronger regional political integration of developing
countries