when american troops news depleted uranium shinji in the iraq war in two thousand and three its use is widely condemned because of the potential long term health effects searchers are uncertain abnormalities. and washington has apologized to moscow for arresting a russian citizen without prompting them to fight in the country's authorities the product was detained in liberia and transferred to the us services of vegetable friend in drug trafficking. now we explore the industry of fake products how to identify copied goods and the dangers they pose that's in our special report coming up next. some seemingly innocent children's toys actually kill us. some so-called drugs were never intended anything you can even find dishwashing soap the one thing a single plate. so when do these defective goods come from and who makes how do

consumers need to identify a fake can lure unfortunately against the producers. of canned goods. motorists called this stretch of highway from mexico to the demand. to china's capital because hundreds of chinese made toys are sold on the roadside. the vendors live in villages. all of this is mind show me you're a genius who are you is all this serious yes you show your papers you think you are then show me the papers to prove it is you could get that into right this has been in use paper to show me the paper why did you hear. the. month after special inspectors raid the site but. despite the risks illegal vending

is a lucrative business the toys approach is told sales of ten u.s. dollars a kilo at the beijing roadside stalls each item then sells for anything from fifteen to fifty dollars for the aggressive reaction to a t.v. camera only confirms that by the shady rules of the black market why should i have to show you my doc i was the boss now the boys will come in take care of you go right ahead if you want it's free man will come and teach you a lesson or are you threatening me. you're not going to feel no wait i'll break your camera all right we're leaving don't wait. just a few kilometers from the illegal vendors a legitimate point. it follows every quality standard in the book and migrant goods. as the word all is well set.

directly from the producer. but it's expensive. illegal vendors prefer to get free and substandard goods from. the over. there are cheaper and that's only natural because the raw materials they are made of mostly come from russian junk yards. they take it over the country for free. and bring back. someone put in thirty small and midsize manufacturers are engaged in making children based on their products and the philatelic in each other was dominated by goods from china the chinese producer seventy percent sold in much a percentage of these unevenly produced an imported.

for any product quality depends on the materials used to make it. from specialized few and far between in russia this granulated plastic is absolutely harmless but it's pricey so-called second. nothing and that's exactly. where. previously. canisters disposable tableware. all that material is sure to contain some harmful sop. whatever you like gasoline or even remnants of drugs a case in point is disposable syringe of those put it no one knows what was inside a syringe. it's harmful but it's cheap to make stuff from it and you have cheap toys. let's play. along with

a large batch of other products for children this toy was confiscated by the siberian operational customs house a businessman from the city of novosibirsk imported a wide range of toys valued at over ten thousand u.s. dollars from china into russia as he crossed the border he provided an i.q. inventor about his cargo concealing a considerable amount of merchandise among the goods were toys for told as an inference the customs service brought the businessman up on charges of smuggling upon further investigation questions arose about the quality of the goods he was smuggling an expert confirmed that the smuggled toys were not cheap fakes but also hazardous to the house of the children for whom they were intended. to give the toys weapons don't conform to standards. i mean they're more powerful than the lorillard rattles the babies fail to meet smell stuff and children's pianos don't meet regulations and sound like many toys have jagged edges all splinters and

unacceptable. to posses counterfeit goods off as legal the businessman tried a well known scheme a contract for a small batch of certified quality toys is signed with an official dealing directly with the produce. next to the bulk of the merchandise consisting of cheap fakes is purchased on the black market. the official certificate is presented to the. very rare occasion that the given drunk. is usually the counterfeit drugs have found he did in a normal batch and in this case the russia health inspector it publishes details on

its website to help people distinguish genuine drug from of the counterfeit drugs. in russia. test samples to verify the quality of drugs. domestic are exposed to intense scrutiny. specialist can often detect a fake just my examining the products packaging. five hundred thousand international units of. absolutely different rafa's most likely fake even the external features a different. only the external the shape of the packaging is totally different. to finalize these and send the information.

the count of the drug must be sent to the pharmaceutical division of the russian health inspectorate within twenty four hours. if the authenticity of a single package is called into question. cheap counterfeit drugs by the thousands . to thank them harmless chemical ingredients are mixed with the intended pharmaceutical compounds. as a result five diluted tablets can be made instead of a single. they usually just a fraction of what's needed to treat their intended for. pharmaceutical content. this time. the first drug. but.

the time is lost in the progress that's it. this is the climax of a special operation in some petersburg police officers posing as purchased thirty thousand dollars worth of a well known drug from a. well the illegal business owner was counting the money the officers managed to search his office. these were. absolutely indistinguishable from the original. numbers were neatly printed on boxes and packets and packaging machine worked at the touch of. a constant stream of. what was supposed to be a powerful anti flu drug they used. and even some artificial.

the merchandise was then sold under the same name as the original product. is the seal of the swiss company. they're a real pharmaceutical company but this is a fake. with the head of the crime the director of a st petersburg based pharmaceutical company at the illegal company that sold regular drugs maybe the director wasn't satisfied with his legal profit make more money on counterfeit goods he set up a retail network in various russian cities where he had to fake drugs delivered all the by then and it got to them. according to statistics the number of falsifying pharmaceuticals in circulation has increased since two thousand and five think mentioned heart disease the gastrointestinal

problems fake antibiotics and anesthetics. in russia eighty seven batches of thirty seven different medicines as well as one hundred eighty seven sets of unfinished pharmaceutical substances were confiscated in just one year. you know what i have to say about it that it tends to be the drunks in the middle price bracket that get the most. and you have to understand that if cheaper drugs are involved they're usually the ones in the highest demand that sell on the large scale. this is one of a number of small business operated by moscow based online store. it held a stash of fake dietary supplements. this

one is an original packaging. and that one is a fake. a criminal gang was engaged in selling the counterfeit goods and it was a well organized operation. they mostly sold dietary supplements used to mail health and. they please to his minutes on the internet. and allison prices that. these supplements were in high demand particularly in summer when people normally try to lose weight. years to live with them to the cost to miss address. this is the deal this criminal group i did all takes place inside the lol hello the korean provided necessary papers for a wholesale batch. here's the certificate and an invoice just in case.

you're right someone's name in here and put the seal here. just in case someone asks you for your papers. these are empty boxes in case some get flattened holograms. here you go exactly one hundred boxes open if you want. we called another key. more expensive they say they are. trading. we have.

to be delivered to the porch of the police station and the courier had no fear to bring his dietary supplements he was sent for and found that the contents fell short of their original product. for a long time. and counterfeit goods in russia. and an.

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narrow passages between stalls with cheap goods. up to a million people came to the market daily. traders didn't even pretend to the brands were genuine. is it a fake dolce and gabbana of course yes where did you get it from just. from china is this bag the real thing it's almost the real thing once i mean almost the real thing cost seven thousand six hundred. it was easy to arrange deliveries of fake clothes to any region of russia. and we'd like to open a store in asia we know of carrots and put it dolce and gabbana sign up what would it be realistic to sell fakes in such a store. of course they're only no problem. this is how fake goods make their way into russia most of them get across the border and

through customs checkpoints in the far east. of merchandise were delivered to moscow markets mostly to. from their fake good spread in smaller quantities through russia's regions usually that transported packages by bus. train inspectors and police often raids on churches to check the quality certificates and trade permits. everybody stay where you are. during one of the they found six thousand containers with counterfeit goods worth two billion dollars. investigators never discovered the owner of the expensive. in the summer of two thousand and nine. shut down. decided to destroy the confiscated

merchandise. government more than six million dollars to destroy these goods. but we're willing to pay for it in order to make sure that none of these goods will ever make it to the stores if they can be harmful to our citizen. children. and even poison a child with. this cabinet at the institute of hygiene and children's health contains toys and even books which experts call silent killers they are poisonous and dangerous is the a very old is the most common poisonous substance but there are some toys like these dishware for children. that radioactive.

researches of the lamp have no pity for the toys they treat them purely as objects for toxic mechanical and radiation tests special attention is given to toys for infants russia has highest safety standards for protecting children than most other countries according to the institute's statistics fifteen percent of the toys they examine each year prove to be home for the share of counterfeit toys has not declined. buyers will never be able to determine with certainty the quality of toys no matter how closely they examine them. but there are some elementary measures of precaution to safeguard your child against many diseases. because if coach there's something i'd like to say about toys for children on the three years old do you know you've got to remember that any soft toy is

a very good medium that they easily penetrate the soft fabric multiply and stay there for a long time. so that's why parents should always remember that any stuffed toy be regularly washed that's not just it must be washed cleaned i'm still really drawn. out of. this is the largest factory producing soap and detergent in eastern europe it's located near moscow and belongs to a foreign company. the original chemical formulas for soap and dishwashing liquid kept secret mixtures and liquids arrive at the factory ready for packing. around a hundred people perform quality control. every two hours stanford a microbiological a bowler a tree choose which products they want to test all the goods are examined under strict controls. all the products has

a specific. consistency all these qualities so you can easily understand what it is when you see it is the white. holograms and other distinctive attributes of the packing are regularly changed but none of this completely saves this well brand from rivals producing illegal counterfeit goods. what would what would be the reason number of tricks they may not use. sometimes trade is dilutes the liquid before selling it sometimes they imitate our products. but recently the number of such cases has been small. because our company uses only high quality materials and it is not always possible to find something similar. police officers have long been planning a raid on this old brick building fully decided against

a forceful entry from the start and chose to carry out the raid quietly. a police officer catches a worker preparing a chemical compound for counterfeit detergent red handed. the little shop producing ripoffs was just a few kilometers away from the legal manufacturer's factory. inspectors found tons of counterfeit merchandise ready to be shipped several crates with stickers and packing materials. and hundreds of sacks with the main ingredients. it's then mixed with glue and a special compound to give the mixture its fruity aroma simple shaving razors were used to mark manufacturing dates on the packages factory officials believe it's the stamp that helps distinguish originals from fakes.

attempt in especially so in principle it is possible to tell where that product was manufactured by our company. i. think the manufacturing date stamped with a mixture of paint and. it's unlikely that a regular customer would be able to tell the difference. the twenty thousand empty plastic bottles and caps to be filled with counterfeit liquid raised many questions about how to combat fake products. matched factory standards. investigators failed to find out where the illegal factory had acquired its containers according to one theory they were manufactured at a legal factory and then were delivered to this warehouse shady channels company could not explain where the containers came from they just didn't want the media to mention fake detergent because this will significantly decrease sales of the

original product. in just a few months the illegal producing counterfeit goods cost the original brand three hundred thousand dollars paradoxically many of the customers themselves seemed unconcerned about having been sold a lower quality ripoff. it must read all over but this one has already been stable for ten minutes. detergent is very different from the real thing its quality is very low over didn't bother the customers their faith in the brand caused them to buy the goods they thought that was the intended quality also they bought the detergent despite its unusually low price when people see it cheap prices they don't even to pay attention to quality. at the. ready when it is. the main factor which stimulates. the counterfeit goods is the consumer. products on the cheap but people can protect themselves by

simply being careful when selecting toys. cheap drugs combined purchasing clothes only from reputable retailers customers need to take action themselves with such a thriving flexible approach. officials face an uphill battle to stamp out the production and trade of counterfeit goods. find out what's really happening to the global economy.

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