India Hits Back in Bio-Piracy Battle

[Bholanath]

Don't know if this saw any press in US, but it sounds like an amazing project, a great collaboration between traditional herbalists and tech-geeks. This sounds like something which should take place on every continent, stop some of this life-patenting crap by the Monsanto boys and their ilk.
Nice article with photos.

** India hits back in 'bio-piracy' battle **
India is compiling a 30 million page electronic encyclopaedia of its traditional
medical systems in an effort to fight 'bio-piracy', reports the BBC's Soutik Biswas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4506382.stm

 

[Ruth]

Its strange really that India and China are the source of some of the biggest production of counterfeit drugs in the world. Maybe ironic. This global problem is very much under reported and I'm starting to think that it might actually be part of the PTB's 'plan' to reduce global population. Especially in developing countries where corruption and povety are rife.

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020100

The Global Threat of Counterfeit Drugs: Why Industry and Governments Must Communicate the Dangers
Robert Cockburn*, Paul N. Newton, E. Kyeremateng Agyarko, Dora Akunyili, Nicholas J. White

Robert Cockburn is a writer and formerly a journalist with The Times, London, United Kingdom. Paul N. Newton is at the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. E. Kyeremateng Agyarko is Chief Executive of the Food and Drug Board, Accra, Ghana. Dora Akunyili is Director-General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Lagos, Nigeria. Nicholas J. White is at the Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, and the Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

Competing Interests: NJW is on the editorial board of PLoS Medicine. RC, PNN, EKA, and DA declare that they have no competing interests.

Published: March 14, 2005

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020100

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