00667nam a22001097a 4500100004500000245002500045260001900070300000800089520037800097650001900475856006300494  aUnited Nations Office on Drugs and Crime  aCounterfeit products  aAustriabUNODC  a20p  a	Product counterfeiting is a form of consumer fraud: a product is sold, purporting to be something that it is not.The production and trafficking of counterfeit goods is often portrayed as a matter of intellectual property theft, and through this prism it garners little sympathy.This paper looks closely at what products are counterfeited and the effects of counterfeiting.  aCounterfeiting  uiffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/counterfeit_products.pdf