New Delhi, April 8 -- Counterfeit goods and related malpractices such as tampering with manufacturing and expiry dates pose a serious challenge and require constant monitoring, says Consumer Affairs Secretary, Nidhi Khare.

Speaking at the FICCI CASCADE Seminar on Protecting Consumers in New Delhi, Khare noted, "People are actually rubbing out the manufacturing date and then they are putting fresh expiry dates on expired products. So, this is a very, very huge problem,"

She said counterfeit products continue to circulate across markets despite enforcement efforts. "It is like a cat and mouse thing. You do it here, they go there. You do something there, they shift their base somewhere else," she said, adding that the issue requires consta...