The effort -- which included the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center -- also looked at counterfeit tickets, specifically for the Super Bowl, the NFL's championship game.
Professor Davies also warned bodybuilders were risking abscesses in their muscles, because they were injecting counterfeit drugs using aftershave rather than alcohol as a "sterilising" agent.
Plain packaging will also exacerbate an already serious counterfeiting problem in parts of the EU. If unregulated, counterfeit cigarette packages are essentially indistinguishable from regulated products, consumers are at greater risk of purchasing dangerous products.
Although ARA has certainly spent much of its time on high-profile cases referred by prosecutors, police and customs, it has also worked to tackle street-level criminals - from drug dealers and gang members to sellers of counterfeit goods and benefit cheats, in concert with local authorities.