10 products that unscrupulous manufacturers often counterfeited

The more is the branded products, the more their fakes. Today copy everything from perfumes and shampoos to food and cars. Large companies are struggling with unfair competitors, but people willing to buy fakes, more than enough. In our review of the 10 items in the market often counterfeited.

Fake as a rule, expensive things. However, olive oil is worth it to dishonest sellers doing his imitation. Today there is a whole market of counterfeit oil from the olives. Most often quality oil diluted with cheaper, for example rapeseed. According to analytical estimates, about 50% of olive oil sold in the world, fake.

The most famous case was the olive scandal in Spain in 1981, when appeared on the market olive oil, canola diluted with the addition of the aniline extract of coal tar, used as an industrial lubricant. Then died of poisoning about 700 people, many earned paralysis, and problems with internal organs and neurological problems.

Young people today find it hard to imagine how wildly popular in the mid-1990s, enjoyed a fun toy animals Beanie Babies. The demand was so high that forgery became inevitable. With these toys was even linked to political scandal in 1998, when us trade representative arrived from China, were detained at customs with counterfeit Beanie Babies.

Along with truffles and caviar, Kobe beef is one of the world's most expensive culinary delicacies. The price per kilogram from $ 200. Today many restaurants offer this dish in their menu. But it is understood that, most likely, it's not the meat that customers are looking to try.

Real Kobe beef is produced only in Japan. This sophisticated look marbled beef derived from Japanese Kobe cows raised by special technology. This meat is almost imported.

There is hardly any statistics on how many people have received life as a result of "happy little misfortunes" when torn condoms. But most of them should be grateful to the Chinese low-quality imitations of famous rubber brands.

In 2008, Chinese police discovered an underground plant, which produced and packaged condoms brands. The officers of the law were confiscated 4.65 million packaged contraceptives and 1100 kg of condoms, ready for packaging. For one condom left 0.03 per dollar, and sold fakes in the Internet for $ 0.16.

Experts have expressed concern that low-quality condoms can cause the spread of deadly diseases in poor countries, where they most often come.

While most of the fakes are often completely harmless to humans, fake malaria drugs kill hundreds of thousands of people. For most people in developed countries, malaria is something mythical, like the plague. But in Africa this is a serious problem. The drug Coartem, created by the American company Novartis, is a favourite object of counterfeit pharmaceuticals. Fake Coartem in China. Every year from fake drug killed hundreds of thousands of people.

Today in any grocery store you can find dozens of different kinds of cheeses. Most of them are produced EN masse from the dairy industry and is quite accessible to the average consumer. However, when it comes to luxury cheeses from France, Italy and Switzerland, the market is immediately confronted with counterfeiting.

At the end of XX century European dairy market was literally littered with fake elite cheeses. In the result it was even decided to create a special cheese Board. The first representation in Italy. There is also a data Bank with more than 10 thousands of dairy strains of bacteria. They are used to establish the authenticity of cheese products.

Yes, these large and complex from the point of view of design things like cars, too fake. The clear leader in the market of automodelic is heavenly. Chinese craftsmen manage to forge even the car of the elite class, but most of their efforts are still concentrated on economy class cars.

In the early 2000s, Chinese car just flooded the market. The worst situation was with fakes Volkswagen. The Chinese are not just forged auto, they still managed to sell them two times cheaper than the originals. Attempts to put pressure on Asian producers of plagiarism legally for the most part not successful.

The famous master violin Stradivarius is not cheese, and not condoms, but fake them with equal success. Latest fake the violin was sold in the US in 2014, at auction for 15.9 million dollars. To 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. To identify a fake musical instrument is extremely difficult. Sometimes this is possible thanks to a chemical analysis, however, auction houses do not always go for it.

In 2012, the U.S. broke the horrible food scandal. It turned out that a significant part of the Heinz ketchup on the market is fake. It is curious that produced fake ketchup the company that is wanting to save money, stopped to observe the production process and carried out the substitution of certain ingredients cheaper.

Such a popular brand like Apple, simply could not be the object of industrial fraud. And again the leader in counterfeits is China. In the case of "Apple" practically all counterfeited: tablets, smartphones, watches, laptops, and more. History knows few precedents of fake Apple Store. In Chinese cities there were even fake service centers! The high cost of products plays a malicious joke with it. Despite the fact that the Chinese authorities are actively dealing with these fakes, the resulting wave will not stop.