Table 3.

Summary of seizures; MRA recalls and case reports of TB medical products with wrong active ingredients

Title	First author/publisher	Year	Country	Reference
Fake consumption cures. Doctors call patent and proprietary medicines harmful	The New York Times	1906	USA	44
Matrix of Drug Quality Reports in USAID-assisted Countries – ‘vials labelled as ceftazidime (Fortum) injection re-used from hospital waste and adulterated with streptomycin’	Primo-Carpenter J; The United States Pharmacopeial Convention Inc.	2004	Vietnam	65 & Power G.
Database on the incidents of Counterfeit Medicines in the WHO-SEA Region	South East Asian FIP-WHO Forum of Pharmaceutical Associations	2004	India	www.searpharmforum.org
Substandard medicines in resource-poor settings: a problem that can no longer be ignored	Caudron J M Tropical Medicine & International Health	2008	Chad	48
South Africa withdraws TB drugs because of quality fears	Sidley P British Medical Journal	2008	South Africa	49
A Small Number of Bottles of the Antibiotic Rofact (Rifampin) May Contain a Different Drug	Health Canada; Government of Canada	2009	Canada	https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/archived-small-number-bottles-antibiotic-rofactr-rifampin-may-contain-different-drug
WHO suspends TB drugs from big India supplier on quality fears	Hirschler B Thomson Reuters	2016	India	https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-india-pharmaceuticals-svizera/who-suspends-tb-drugs-from-big-india-supplier-on-quality-fears-idUKKCN0WK2HE?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNewsMolt
In Côte d’Ivoire. two million TB drugs financed by The Global Fund sold in street markets: OIG	Braquehais S Aidspan OIG	2016	Côte d’Ivoire	https://aidspan.org/
Fingerprinting of falsified artemisinin combination therapies via direct analysis in real time coupled to a compact single quadrupole mass spectrometer	Bernier M C Analytical Methods. The Royal Society of Chemistry	2016	Sub-Saharan Africa	63
Triboelectric Nanogenerator (TENG) Mass Spectrometry of Falsified Antimalarials	Bernier M C Rapid communications in mass spectrometry RCM	2018	Sub-Saharan Africa	64

MRA, Medicines Regulatory Agency; TB, tuberculosis.