Vietnamese Student Invents Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

A Vietnamese student recently invented a software program designed to identify phony products, including counterfeit drugs.

Nguyen Kim Hoang Nhu is a student at Ho Chi Minh City National University where one of her goals is to create a program to help people avoid coming in contact with fake products, according to Viet Nam News.

Nhu said that her idea for creating the program came when she saw a TV show about the devastating effects that counterfeit drugs can have on people.

“Drugs are just one of a variety of goods that directly affect people’s health, people even face a high risk of death when taking fake drugs,” she told the news source. “Learning this information gave me a lot of ideas.”

Nhu’s anti-counterfeiting technology is a program that acts like a database where consumers can check to see if the products they are in possession of are authentic.

Huynh Van Hoa, former director of the Da Nang Department of Education and Training, told the news provider, “the software is useful and has high potential for practical application.”

There are a variety of different anti-counterfeiting technologies on the market that can be used by consumers, some employ RFID tags, which are chips that emit radio waves that can be read by scanners to confirm the authenticity of the drug.