Know the worrying picture of the global proliferation of dangerous counterfeits and introduces solutions to remedy the situation. WAITO anti counterfeit organization fighting against counterfeiting, illicit trade, trafficking, food frauds etc. For more details visit: waitofoundation.org

1. The global market for counterfeits: Crime and counterfeiting
The book paints a worrying picture of the global proliferation of
dangerous counterfeits and introduces solutions to remedy the
situation.
There is an exponential growth of food fraud, false cosmetics and
false perfumes, informal markets on the Internet, accidents due to
non-compliant equipment and spare parts, the extreme danger of
counterfeit toys made in China, counterfeit cigarettes and
imitation medicines – which cause thousands of patient deaths
each year –, and so on. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall and
globalisation, illicit traffic has acquired a transnational dimension.
According to the most conservative estimates, €200 billion is lost
each year to the benefit of pirates and counterfeiters!
How can this scourge be fought? What solutions are provided by
the public authorities through the precautionary principle? What are the strategies adopted by companies to
meet the new challenges of regulating consumer products?
Pierre Delval suggests new remedies, going beyond intellectual-property law, to improve the fight against
the dramatic development in illicit traffic.
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Website: http://www.waitofoundation.org
CNRS Éditions, collection Arès, 2010, format 14 X 22, 280 pages, price: €25, ISBN: 978-2-271-06842-2.
Information: The WAITO foundation is also present in Brussels and Paris and, in 2011; two other offices will be opened in
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