There is a general agreement that piracy; counterfeiting and passing off
are unfair. However, there is often surreptitious - or even open -
sympathy for, say, those who purchase counterfeit designer fashions or
the latest technical gadgets. The pirate is even sometimes represented
as a dared evil hero. In this book, Prof. Dora Nkem Akunyili, Director
General of Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration
and Control, presents a unique study of a global phenomenon in which
lawbreaking and profiteering prevail at the cost of human health and
life - and of the ways in which this can be fought by appropriate
legislation, regulation and enforcement.