How counterfeit products threaten economy

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Lahore: Pakistani consumers face double threat

Mixing refers to reducing the quality of a product by adding inferior, harmful or unauthorized substances. Although blending involves combining non -standard or dangerous materials into real products, counterfeiting involves fully producing fake products that imitate the set brands. Both methods compromise on economic losses and product performance.

With common ways across the subcontinent, food mixing in South Asia is an important issue. In Pakistan, milk mixtures, including detergents, starch and chemicals, are also extensively left in the meat of stained cooking oils, toxic foods, and formalized meat. While the government has taken action, the implementation is weak.

In India, high levels of pesticides remain, artificial baking agents such as calcium carbide in fruits, and dairy, spices and pollution in grain. Despite the rules like the Food Safety and Standards Act, the implementation is contradictory. Bangladesh faces similar challenges, in fish and vegetables, textile colors in sweets, and even artificial eggs and rice are found. Although the government has broken the major criminals, the problem persists.

Developed countries have severe food safety regulations and enforcement, which reduces large -scale food mixtures. However, occasional scandals are still found. Strong food safety laws, advanced tests, and tough fines significantly reduce the frequency of blend in these countries.

In industrial products, homeowners and businesses in Pakistan often buy cables called “100 percent copper”, which actually contain cheap metals like aluminum or iron. This misleading process results in poor conductivity, safety risks, including high heat and fire risks and economic losses. The blend extends to various sectors, including medicine and construction materials, which reduce performance, safety risks and financial loss.

Fake copies are wide in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. In developed countries, strict intellectual property laws, strong enforcement of customs, and consumer protection regulations make counterfeiting more difficult. However, luxurious fake goods such as fake ghee or rollex items are still in black markets. Fake chargers and batteries sometimes enter Western markets via online platform. On the contrary, fake products are openly sold in Pakistani markets with minimal regulatory action.

The widespread availability of fake equipment is obstructing foreign investment in a number of ways. International investors and brands are discouraged from entering the markets where the violation of intellectual property is very high and the implementation is weak. Many international car makers have raised concerns about fake spare parts in Pakistan. The sale of low -quality fake parts discourages global manufacturers from increasing operations due to the risk of reputation and reduction of real parts sales or the establishment of local production facilities.

Many tech brands are widespread availability of low quality and cheap smartphones, chargers and markets in Pakistan. Many software companies face high piracy in Pakistan, which limits direct investment from global IT firms and reduces Pakistan’s ability to become a regional hub for tech development. Clothing and shoe brands also face widespread counterfeiting, in which fake products are widely available in local markets. Although many foreign brands have expanded India and Bangladesh, they have avoided large -scale Pakistan due to weak brand protection laws. Fake goods disrupt a fair competition, which reduces privileges to enter or expand companies in the country.

Both India and Bangladesh have reinforced their legal framework, implementation procedures, and industry support to counter counterfeiting. Improving the implementation of Pakistan Customs and breaking fake markets, working with e -commerce platforms to remove intellectual property entries for border control brands, removing fake lists, and local monitoring units to foreign brands Can adopt similar measures by encouraging the establishment of the establishment. Strong regulatory action and implementation is very important to tackle the increasing threat of counterfeiting and mixing, protecting consumer rights and attracting foreign investment.