Health officials announce purchase of three drug authentication machines

Ascertaining the authenticity of medication will soon be as easy as popping a packet into a box, Department of Health (DOH) officials said yesterday. "You won't even have to remove the pill from the blister pack," said Dai Hsueh-yung (戴雪詠), section chief at the DOH's Bureau of Pharmaceutical Affairs (BPA).

The technology that will make this possible is called near infrared spectroscopy, and three machines worth US$10,000 each will be imported as early as this year, she said, adding that there would be one machine in northern Taiwan, one in central Taiwan and the third in the south.

By Angelica Oung
1 February 2007

Read the full story at taipeitimes.com.

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