“…The fight against this public health problem is considered seriously by the authorities but it has been difficult to find good tools for discriminating counterfeits, which may ressemble both branded and generic products. Many analytical methods have been described for counterfeit drug detection, such as High Performance Liquid Chromatography with UV detection (HPLC-UV) [6][7][8], and mass spectrometry detection (HPLC-MS) [7,8], 1 H Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) [9], Raman spectroscopy [9,10], X-ray powder diffraction [11], refractometry and colorimetry [12]. Recently, Near InfraRed Spectroscopy (NIRS) has also been introduced in this domain for counterfeits [13][14][15] and/or imitations [3,[16][17][18] investigations.…”