At a briefing for MEPs by Pfizer, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, we hear about the fake medicines which are starting to find their way into chemist shops and appear to be in genuine packaging.

The speaker also said that Pfizer also wondered who buys Viagra on the internet when it is highly likely to be useless or even dangerous? Pfizer did the research to find the answer. They discovered that Viagra is bought on the internet mainly by middle-aged men in suits: these men say they buy it that way “because there is no time to go to the doctor” and they gamble that the pills will be genuine. In sad contrast, men in Africa buy Viagra on the internet because it is cheap and they also gamble that it will be genuine.

So, either way, the organised criminal gangs who are behind the internet advertisements, make money with fake pills made in China.