Posts Tagged ‘Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies’
Counterfeit Drugs a Problem for the World’s Rich as Well as the Poor
Governments are stiffening regulations against fake drugs and conducting more aggressive raids, as anti-counterfeiting technologies improve and NGOs support anti-counterfeiting campaigns. Counterfeit medicine smugglers have not been as aggressively pursued by international law enforcement as heroin or cocaine smugglers , however governments are stiffening regulations against fake drugs and conducting more aggressive raids. Companies are…
[...]Tech Company Introduces Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
An English technology company is working on a new, low-cost anti-counterfeiting technology to help combat the problem of fake medications. The company producing this new anti-counterfeiting technology will place a code on drug packaging that it hopes will be almost impossible to duplicate, according to Cambridge Business News. The new technology will place…
[...]Matrix Code Technology Joins Counterfeit Stoppers
A new ‘track and trace’ technology is being developed to uniquely mark pharmaceutical products and improve traceability. The technique will allow faster identification and resolution of any manufacturing quality problems but will also prove invaluable as an anti-counterfeit measure because the specific coding and validation systems are almost impossible to copy. This technology…
[...]Packaging Company Proposes Anti-Countefeiting Technology
AA packaging machinery manufacturer has proposed a new anti-counterfeiting technology that may help protect people from counterfeit drugs. The proposed technology would place a serialized label on the side of the individual blister packs and also put a synchronized marking on the bottom of each drug container, according to Packaging Digest. The marking on…
[...]New Counterfeit Drug Identification Technology
Researchers in Belgium recently uncovered a new method to identify counterfeit drugs. A team of researchers from the Scientific Institute of Public Health in Brussels, Belgium, compared three different spectroscopic techniques to determine which was best for certain erectile dysfunction drugs, according to SecuringPharma.com. The three techniques examined were Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy…
[...]Two Drug Makers To Use Text Message Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
Two international pharmaceutical companies recently announced that they would use SaaS-based anti-counterfeiting technology to combat counterfeit drugs. This type of anti-counterfeiting technology places a scratchable area on drug packaging. The consumer then scratches it to reveal a number. That number is then sent via text message to a government agency, which in turn sends it…
[...]Tech Company To Give Drug Makers Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
A technology company has entered an agreement with a number of pharmaceutical companies in India to supply them with an anti-counterfeiting technology. By using nanotechnology the company says it can track medications through the supply chain and thus may prevent counterfeit drugs from entering it. Specifically, the technology puts unique “fingerprints” on products that can…
[...]Phone App Can Help Fight Counterfeit Drugs
Nowadays it seems like everything can be done on cell phones; from taking pictures to checking the score of the ballgame, everything is seemingly in the palm of one’s hand. Now a company is introducing an application (or “app”) for smart phones that will theoretically allow drug manufactures to more closely monitor the pharmaceutical supply…
[...]Researchers Receive Grant to Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology
A team of researchers recently received a grant to help them develop anti-counterfeiting technology to combat the growing problem of phony medicines. The Wellcome Trust, a global charity, granted the researchers from King’s College in London £473,000 to help them create a system that can identify counterfeit drugs and substandard medications. The team will be…
[...]Anti-counterfeiting Technology Could Help Governments Track Fake Drugs
Developing nations have struggled mightily with counterfeit drugs, like when 400 people in Nigeria, Haiti and Bangladesh died from taking a medication treated with wallpaper remover, and that is why anti-counterfeiting technologies can be important in preventing counterfeit drugs from entering the secure pharmaceutical supply chain. One such technology has been in use for diabetes…
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