male counterparts and that the countries russian speaking minority are also falling victim to discrimination. and next we explore the industry of fake products how can you identify copied goods and why it can be be so dangerous that's in our special report coming your way next on r.t.e. . some seemingly innocent children's toys actually. 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 learn to identify a fake can lure unfortunately against the producers. of canned goods. motorists call this stretch of highway from mexico to the demand. to china's

capital because hundreds of chinese made toys are sold on the roadside. 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 who do you think you are then show me the papers to prove it is you keep that in to ride this out been in use paper to show me the papers why did you hear. each month off the special inspectors made the sign but. despite the risks illegal vending is a lucrative business the tours of. the 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 and we can see. by the shading rules of the black market why should i have to show you my dark alley the boss now the boys will come and take care of you go

right ahead if you want a 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. working to make. it follows every quality standard in the book and my grange good. 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. the point is that. someone put in thirty small and midsize manufacturers are engaged in making children's. products and the philatelic in each other was dominated by goods from china the chinese producer seventy percent sold in much a percentage of the unevenly produced and imported. quality depends on the materials used to make it. from specialized few and far between in russia this plastic is absolutely harmless but it's pricey so-called

second. nothing and that's exactly. where. previously. canisters are disposable tableware. all that material is sure to contain some harmful sop. or whatever you like gasoline or even remnants of drugs a case in point is disposable syringe of those bodies 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. that'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 involved in 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 with toys for told as an inference the customs service brought the businessman up on charges of smuggling upon further investigation questions also 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 them all powerful than the lorillard rattles the babies fail to be that 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 producer next to the bulk of the merchandise consisting of cheap fakes is

purchased on the black market. given. is usually the counterfeit drugs found in a normal batch and in this case the russia health inspector it publishes details on its website to help people. in.

specialist. what's new in five hundred thousand international units of the federal suppose a trace absolutely different rapids most likely fake even the external features a different. only the externals the shape of the packaging is totally different. finalize these and send the information. would of the count of the drug must be sent to the pharmaceutical oversight division of the russian health inspectorate within twenty four hours. a whole batch is banned from sale if the authenticity of

a single package is called into question. cheap counterfeit drugs or turned out by the thousands. to fake them homeless chemical ingredients a mixed with the intended pharmaceutical compounds. as a result five diluted tablets can be made instead of a single pill they usually contain just a fraction of what's needed to treat the ailment they're intended for. so what does it mean if the pharmaceutical cond. this time. the first drug. but not 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 small time operators. the labels were absolutely indistinguishable from the original. badge numbers were neatly printed on boxes and packets and packaging machine worked at the touch of a button churning out a constant stream of. what was supposed to be a powerful anti flu drug they used. and even some artificial apple and lemon flavoring . 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 director of a st petersburg based pharmaceutical company at the legal company that sold regular drugs maybe the director wasn't satisfied with his legal profit going to make more money on counterfeit goods he set up a retail network in various russian cities where he had to fake drugs delivered by then and it got them. according to statistics the number of falsified pharmaceuticals in circulation worldwide has increased since two thousand and five think medicine for 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 the course of just one year. as you know what i have to say about it it's 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 pleased to be on the internet. and prices that. these compliments 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 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. there you go

exactly one hundred boxes open if you want. the company more expensive they say they are. they say only they can sell. illegal trading. we have. to be delivered to the porch of the police station and the courier had no fear to bring his dietary supplements here they were sent for and found that the contents

fell short of their original product. for a long time. for trafficking and counterfeit goods in russia. and an. oh la.

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every month we give you the future we help you understand how we'll get there and what tomorrow brings the best in science and technology from across russia and around the world. join us for technology update on our jeep. churches of ski was. one of the largest markets in eastern europe seventy hectares of shops in storage and its narrow passages between stalls with cheap goods. up to a million people daily. traders didn't even pretend that 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 one to mean almost the real

thing cost seven thousand six hundred. it was easy to arrange deliveries of fake clothes to any region of russia. would like to open a store in asia you know of courage and put it all chained up on a sign of a what would it be realistic to sell fakes in such a still. of course in their own way 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. to moscow markets mostly to. fake good spread in smaller quantities through russia's regions usually the. packages by bus.

trade inspectors and police often raids on. to check the quality certificates and trade permits. everybody stay where you are. during one of the things 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. shutdown. decided to destroy the confiscated merchandise. government more than six million dollars to destroy good. but we're willing to pay for it in order to make sure that none of these goods will ever make it to the. city they can be harmful to our citizens. especially 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 like the stage where the children did the radioactive. research as of the lab 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. will never be able to determine with certainty the quality of toys no matter how closely they examine them. but some elementary measures of precaution to safeguard your child against many diseases. when i have because of coach there is something i'd like to say about toys for children under three years old you you know you've got to remember that any soft toy is a very good medium for journeys 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 must be regularly washed that's not just it must be washed cleaned i'm thoroughly drawn and you. 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 the micro biological aboard tree choose which products they want to test all the goods are examined under strict controls. must all be locked has a specific color sense and 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 known 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 the imitate products. but recently the number of such cases has been small. because our company uses only high quality packing materials and it is not always possible to find something similar. police officers have long been planning a raid on this old brick building they 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 four tons of counterfeit merchandise ready to be shipped several crates with stickers

and packing materials. and hundreds of sacks with the main ingredient. 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. products have the manufacturing date stamped in a special way so in principle it is possible to tell where that product was manufactured by our company. think bottles have the manufacturing date hand stamped with a mixture of paint and vanished 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 mcquade 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 illegal 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 but counterfeit detergent is very

different from the real thing its quality is very low over it 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 only going to pay attention to quality. at the. ready open it did go. the main factor which stimulates production of counterfeit goods is the consumer's desire to buy original products on the cheap but people can protect themselves by simply being careful when selecting toys by not buying cheap drugs and buying just in claims only from reputable retailers customers need to take action themselves with such a thriving flexible approach nor enforcement officials face an uphill battle to stamp out the production and trade of counterfeit goods.

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