Where there is an acute lack of protective equipment, testing and medication in the fight against the coronavirus, product fraud grows rapidly. Even in exceptional times like these, criminals do not shy away from putting counterfeit and inferior goods into circulation, directly putting the public, healthcare workers and patients in harm’s way. Mike Isles, the Executive Director for the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU and Dr Marietta Ulrich-Horn at SECURIKETT explain how in the race against time, less attention is paid to where the goods have come from.