President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered a crackdown on manufacturers and peddlers of fake medicine, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Salvador Panelo said on Wednesday. He said the President gave the instruction to Philippine National Police Chief Director General Ronald dela Rosa on Tuesday night after The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had warned consumers against the purchase and consumption of counterfeit Biogesic paracetamol 500-milligram tablets. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported on January that an estimated one in 10 medical products in low- and middle-income countries is substandard or falsified