Substandard medicines are the products in which composition and ingredients do not meet the correct scientific specifications and may occur as a result of negligence, human error etc.These are consequently ineffective and often dangerous to the patient. Counterfeit medicines are fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and/or source.Counterfeiting of medicines is a hugely lucrative business due to high demand and low production costs.Scholarly journal is a peer-reviewed journal in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Scholarly journals serve as forums for the introduction and presentation for scrutiny of new research, and the critique of existing research.