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Not sure if pet medicine is regulated by the country's food and drug administration, but you might consider reporting it to them.

• lobocinza 5y ago
  It is and I'm sure they are aware of the problem but this goes way beyond it. The original product has all the certifications needed, this was a counterfeit and selling it was a crime. I gave all the evidences to the multinational company and possibly the guy that sold me it got fucked. But still he was only a small fish on a sea of counterfeit. Government is inefficient and outstretched and I think it's just not cost-benefit for companies to go after these guys as lawyers are expensive and it's not difficult for the mafia to find people willing to sell their counterfeit products online. They might even be ignorant to the point they believe they are selling original products and not going against the law. Counterfeit goods is a big industry on Brazil. Products like cigars are mass manufactured at Paraguay and then smuggled to Brazil. They might even be decent products sold at a quarter of the price and in some cases even original products as they avoid import taxes and the premium of the internal market. In this case the counterfeit is easy to detect and avoid as it will never come with a box. Boxes takes a lot of space and make smuggling prohibitive. So instead of putting the salesman against a wall I can just ask him: "Does it come with the box?" and I will receive an excuse as an answer and will know that it is a counterfeit.