PODCAST: Fighting counterfeiting and piracy in the supply chain

Counterfeiting costs legitimate business billions of dollars a year in potentially lost sales, and governments probably just as much in lost taxes.

And vast amounts of those counterfeited goods pass through global supply chains.

According to some estimates, governments around the world cumulatively lose as much as $50bn a year in unpaid cigarette taxes alone, while the dangers of counterfeit substances entering supply chains was graphically illustrated a few years ago when several reefer containers serviced with fake gases exploded.

But business is ...