Due to the health danger of taking counterfeit medicines, be aware of the following warning signs:
- The drug is not listed in the Ministry of Health-approved drug repository
- The drug or product packaging lacks Hebrew and English consumer leaflets
- Essential details are missing from the packaging, such as manufacturer name, validity, batch number
- Product packaging has spelling errors
- Tamper evidence mechanism does not exist or is torn
- The drug/preparation was not purchased at a licensed pharmacy but via the internet, in a neighborhood grocery store or from an unauthorized person
- There are suspicious signs on the product packaging, such as foreign language captions in Chinese, Thai, Indian or other languages
