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Items that are often counterfeited
The more branded goods produced, the more comes out fakes. Today, copy everything - from perfume and shampoo to food and cars. Large companies are fighting with unfair competition, but people willing to buy fakes more than enough. In our review of 10 items that the market is most often counterfeited.
1. Olive oil
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Forge usually expensive things. However, olive oil is to dishonest sellers engaged in its imitation. Today there is a whole market of fake olive oil. The most common quality oil is diluted more cheap, such as rapeseed. By analytically estimated that about 50% of olive oil sold worldwide - falsified. The most famous case was the olive scandal in Spain in 1981, when the market appeared olive oil, canola diluted with the addition of aniline - an extract of coal tar that is used as an industrial lubricant. Then poisoning died about 700 people, many earned paralysis, problems with internal organs and neurological problems.
2. Toys Beanie Babies
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Young people today is difficult to imagine how the great popularity in the mid-1990s, enjoyed fun toy animals Beanie Babies. Demand was so great that the forgery was inevitable. With these toys was even associated political scandal in 1998, when the US trade representatives, who arrived from China, detained at customs counterfeiting Beanie Babies.
3. Marbled beef Kobe
Along with truffles and caviar Kobe beef is one of the most expensive in the world of culinary delights. The price per kilogram - from $ 200. Today, many restaurants offer this dish in their menu. But it is necessary to understand that, most likely, this is not the meat, which customers dream a try. The real Kobe beef is produced only in Japan. This exquisite view of marbled beef derived from Japanese Kobe cows reared on special technology. This meat is almost not imported.
4. Condoms
It is unlikely that there are statistics, many people have received life as a result of the "little miseries happy" when condoms exploded. But most of them should be grateful to the Chinese poor-quality forgeries of famous "rubber" brands.
In 2008, Chinese police found an underground workshop, which produced and packaged condom brands. Servants zakona.bylo confiscated 4.65 million packaged contraceptives and condoms more 1100 kg ready for packaging. In the production of one condom it took $ 0.03, and sold fake online for $ 0, 16.
Experts have expressed concern that the low quality condoms can cause the spread of killer diseases in poor countries, where they most often fall.
5. Medicines for Malaria
While the majority of fakes often completely harmless to humans, fake malaria drugs are killing hundreds of thousands of people. For most people in developed countries, malaria is something mythical about like the plague. But in Africa it is a serious problem. The drug Coartem, created by the American company Novartis, is a favorite subject of counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Fake Coartem in China. Every year, this drug does not kill hundreds of thousands of people.
6. Cheese
Today, at any grocery store, you can find dozens of species of a wide variety of cheeses. Most of them are produced in large dairy industry and is affordable for the average consumer. However, when it comes to elite cheeses from France, Italy and Switzerland - the market immediately confronted with counterfeiting.
At the end of the XX century European dairy market was literally swamped with fake elite cheeses. As a result, it was even decided to create a special commission cheese. The first representative office appeared in Italy. There is a database with more than 10 thousand strains of lactic bacteria. They are used for authentication of cheese products.
7. Cars
Yes, such a large and complex in terms of design pieces, such as cars, too fake. The undoubted market leader avtopoddelok is China. Chinese craftsmen manage to forge even the car elite class, but most of their efforts focused yet on economy class cars.
At the beginning of the 2000s the Chinese auto market is just flooded. The worst situation was the situation with fakes Volkswagen. The Chinese are not only forged cars, they have managed to sell them two times cheaper than the originals. Attempts to put pressure on Asian manufacturers plagiarism legally for the most part have not been successful.
8. Stradivarius
Stradivarius violins famous - it's not cheese, and condoms, but forge them with no less success. Last fake violin was sold in the US in 2014 at auction for 15.9 million dollars. Identify a terrible mistake was only a few months after the auction. Those who forges a Stradivarius violin, as a rule, are truly masters of their craft. Identify fake musical instrument is extremely difficult. Sometimes it succeeds thanks to chemical analysis, however, the auction houses do not always go for it.
9. Ketchup
In 2012, the United States broke the horrible food scandal. It turned out that much of the Heinz ketchup on the market - fake. Curiously, the fake ketchup produced by the company, which is wanting to save money, not in compliance with the production technology and implemented the substitution of certain ingredients for cheaper.
10. Apple Store
This popular brand, like Apple, simply could not be the subject of commercial fraud. And once again the leader in counterfeits is China. In the case of the "Yabloko" counterfeited almost everything: tablets, smart phones, watches, laptops and more. History has few precedents fake Apple Store. In Chinese cities even appeared fake service centers! The high cost of production of the corporation is playing tricks on her. Despite the fact that the Chinese authorities are actively fighting with such forgeries, resulting wave is unstoppable.
1. Olive oil
[Img = uploads / 05.2015 / 3786_01.jpg
Forge usually expensive things. However, olive oil is to dishonest sellers engaged in its imitation. Today there is a whole market of fake olive oil. The most common quality oil is diluted more cheap, such as rapeseed. By analytically estimated that about 50% of olive oil sold worldwide - falsified. The most famous case was the olive scandal in Spain in 1981, when the market appeared olive oil, canola diluted with the addition of aniline - an extract of coal tar that is used as an industrial lubricant. Then poisoning died about 700 people, many earned paralysis, problems with internal organs and neurological problems.
2. Toys Beanie Babies
]
Young people today is difficult to imagine how the great popularity in the mid-1990s, enjoyed fun toy animals Beanie Babies. Demand was so great that the forgery was inevitable. With these toys was even associated political scandal in 1998, when the US trade representatives, who arrived from China, detained at customs counterfeiting Beanie Babies.
3. Marbled beef Kobe
Along with truffles and caviar Kobe beef is one of the most expensive in the world of culinary delights. The price per kilogram - from $ 200. Today, many restaurants offer this dish in their menu. But it is necessary to understand that, most likely, this is not the meat, which customers dream a try. The real Kobe beef is produced only in Japan. This exquisite view of marbled beef derived from Japanese Kobe cows reared on special technology. This meat is almost not imported.
4. Condoms
It is unlikely that there are statistics, many people have received life as a result of the "little miseries happy" when condoms exploded. But most of them should be grateful to the Chinese poor-quality forgeries of famous "rubber" brands.
In 2008, Chinese police found an underground workshop, which produced and packaged condom brands. Servants zakona.bylo confiscated 4.65 million packaged contraceptives and condoms more 1100 kg ready for packaging. In the production of one condom it took $ 0.03, and sold fake online for $ 0, 16.
Experts have expressed concern that the low quality condoms can cause the spread of killer diseases in poor countries, where they most often fall.
5. Medicines for Malaria
While the majority of fakes often completely harmless to humans, fake malaria drugs are killing hundreds of thousands of people. For most people in developed countries, malaria is something mythical about like the plague. But in Africa it is a serious problem. The drug Coartem, created by the American company Novartis, is a favorite subject of counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Fake Coartem in China. Every year, this drug does not kill hundreds of thousands of people.
6. Cheese
Today, at any grocery store, you can find dozens of species of a wide variety of cheeses. Most of them are produced in large dairy industry and is affordable for the average consumer. However, when it comes to elite cheeses from France, Italy and Switzerland - the market immediately confronted with counterfeiting.
At the end of the XX century European dairy market was literally swamped with fake elite cheeses. As a result, it was even decided to create a special commission cheese. The first representative office appeared in Italy. There is a database with more than 10 thousand strains of lactic bacteria. They are used for authentication of cheese products.
7. Cars
Yes, such a large and complex in terms of design pieces, such as cars, too fake. The undoubted market leader avtopoddelok is China. Chinese craftsmen manage to forge even the car elite class, but most of their efforts focused yet on economy class cars.
At the beginning of the 2000s the Chinese auto market is just flooded. The worst situation was the situation with fakes Volkswagen. The Chinese are not only forged cars, they have managed to sell them two times cheaper than the originals. Attempts to put pressure on Asian manufacturers plagiarism legally for the most part have not been successful.
8. Stradivarius
Stradivarius violins famous - it's not cheese, and condoms, but forge them with no less success. Last fake violin was sold in the US in 2014 at auction for 15.9 million dollars. Identify a terrible mistake was only a few months after the auction. Those who forges a Stradivarius violin, as a rule, are truly masters of their craft. Identify fake musical instrument is extremely difficult. Sometimes it succeeds thanks to chemical analysis, however, the auction houses do not always go for it.
9. Ketchup
In 2012, the United States broke the horrible food scandal. It turned out that much of the Heinz ketchup on the market - fake. Curiously, the fake ketchup produced by the company, which is wanting to save money, not in compliance with the production technology and implemented the substitution of certain ingredients for cheaper.
10. Apple Store
This popular brand, like Apple, simply could not be the subject of commercial fraud. And once again the leader in counterfeits is China. In the case of the "Yabloko" counterfeited almost everything: tablets, smart phones, watches, laptops and more. History has few precedents fake Apple Store. In Chinese cities even appeared fake service centers! The high cost of production of the corporation is playing tricks on her. Despite the fact that the Chinese authorities are actively fighting with such forgeries, resulting wave is unstoppable.
