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Mike Dalton, Eli Lilly chemist

SOMETIMES, IT’S a funky-looking “i” in the red Eli Lilly and Company logo that tips Mike Dalton off to fraud. Or an irregular dimple pattern on the tinfoil wrapper. Crooks who mass-produce counterfeit pharmaceuticals are creative and ambitious, peddling billions of dollars of fake drugs around the world.

It’s Dalton’s job to stop them.

His forensic lab at Lilly detects counterfeit medicines and works

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