The on-pack technology enables consumers, retailers and others to harness mobile devices in order to verify the authenticity of pharmaceutical products.
MediLedger Product Verification Solution, a DSCSA compliant platform, is announced that will assist drug supply chain stakeholders in product verification and authenticity.
As part of European efforts to help stem the spread of counterfeit medicines, the European Commission has laid out the details of a key part of its Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD).
Regulatory enforcement saw fewer counterfeit drug websites in 2014 but sellers are turning to YouTube and social media sites to advertise their products, according to the MHRA.
In light of the implementation of the Drug Quality and Security Act of 2013 in the US, which calls for the phased implementation of electronic tracking down to the package level, companies are looking at options to catch up and reduce counterfeiting at...
Eli Lilly is spending €75m ($102m) to meet latest global anti-counterfeiting regulations, its security experts said in an exclusive interview with in-Pharmatechnologist.com.
The US House on Saturday passed legislation that calls for the tracking and tracing of pharmaceuticals through the nation's supply chain after agreeing on the bill with the Senate last week.
In the war against counterfeits, regulators have concentrated on serialisation and ePedigree and missed an opportunity on product authentication, according to AlpVision.
Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has voted unanimously in favour of new legislation which will criminalise the production and trafficking of counterfeit drugs.
Drug counterfeiters are using the Caribbean as a transport hub to ship fake pharmaceutical around the world according to the Antigua Pharmaceutical Society.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has partnered with Nigeria's National Agency for Food and Drug Administration Control (NAFDAC) to provide a patient SMS verification service for its antibiotic, Ampiclox..
Only multiple anti-counterfeiting strategies are able to beat increasingly sophisticated criminals, according to a seminar on anti-counterfeiting at the recent AAPS trade event in New Orleans.
Combatting counterfeit drugs through forging stronger partnerships is beyond profit, it is about saving lives, AstraZeneca principal scientist Dr Michael Claybourn told a workshop on global drug quality at the AAPS annual meeting in New Orleans.
Researchers have presented a low cost track and trace and authentication system, which they believe could be implemented immediately, to combat counterfeiting in the developing world.
Authentication and track and trace methods, like pedigree, should be combined to provide layers of protection against counterfeit drugs according to XStream Systems’ CEO Brian Mayo.
As the sophistication of counterfeit drug packaging continues to improve it is becoming harder and harder to tell real products from fake. in-PharmaTechnologist spoke with Alpvision's Roland Meylan about the company's approach to brand authentication.
Visiongain's third annual conference on Pharmaceutical
Anti-counterfeiting Strategies kicks off next week, covering many
aspects of the problem from technological deterrents, regulatory
developments in the EU and US and the implications...
A 20ft container of counterfeit pharmaceuticals has been impounded
by the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administration
and Control (NAFDAC).
The European Union's 2007 pharmaceutical counterfeiting data shows
that almost 40 per cent of fake medicines seized by the EU
originated in Switzerland.
The UK has become an unlikely hub for drug counterfeiters, with the
UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) last
week launching its new three-year action plan to tackle the recent
surge in drug fakes head on.
A new report highlights a number of worrying trends emerging in
regard to the increasing number of fake pharmaceuticals
infiltrating supply chains around the globe.
Three more individuals have been sentenced following last month's
exposure of the largest counterfeit drugs conspiracy ever to be
encountered in the UK.
The biggest counterfeit drugs conspiracy ever to be encountered in
the UK was crushed this week, as gang members were found guilty of
conspiracy by a UK court following a lengthy investigation by the
authorities.
Successful applications of cold-form film and security foil helped
the Pharma/Healthcare division of Austria's Constantia Packaging to
deliver above-average growth in 2006, the company reported.
The first radio frequency identification (RFID) tag that
authenticates, encrypts data and monitors product
temperature hit the shelves last week, aimed specifically at
protecting the pharmaceutical supply chain.
A twist on an existing security technology will use enhanced mobile
phones to help establish the authenticity of pharmaceutical
products in developing countries.
A security technology that had been strictly limited to use by
governmental organisations is now available commercially, with
several major pharmaceutical manufacturers keen to snap up the
device and protect their supply chain....
The pharmaceutical industry's first fully portable drug
anti-counterfeiting device will be presented in Baltimore later
this month at IFPAC, the International Forum on Process Analytical
Chemistry.
A UK based firm aims to take up the fight against drug
counterfeiters with its innovative imaging and spectroscopy
products. TeraView says its technology could aid regulators and law
enforcement agencies screen for potentially lethal...
Pfizer has issued another recall for packs of its blockbuster
cholesterol drug Lipitor after UK regulators found evidence of more
counterfeit product in the legitimate supply chain from a batch
whose withdrawal was supposed to have...
French-owned software firms Axway and Cyclone Commerce have joined
forces with US drug distribution firm McKesson to develop new and
cost-effective IT to support the pharma industry in its venture to
introduce item-level tracking...
While praising the benefits of radio-frequency identification
(RFID), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has refrained
from demanding its implementation in new measures it unveiled to
combat counterfeit drugs, asking instead...
Cardinal Health is about to embark on a first-of-its-kind
radiofrequency identification (RFID) tag pilot that tests the
viability of the new technology across the entire supply chain,
from item throughout to case and pallet level.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has begun distributing Trizivir tagged with
radio frequency identification (RFID) technology as it intensifies
efforts to combat counterfeiting.
Systech and Domino Printing Sciences has announced an agreement
that will combine Systech's TIPS Serialised Product Tracking
methods with Domino's marking and coding technology as a solution
to combat counterfeit product...
Sun Microsystems have strengthened the fight against drug
counterfeiting by launching a unique RFID software package tailored
to the specific needs of the pharmaceutical industry.
Systech International's new TIPS Serialized Product Tracking
solution software will aid in the fight against counterfeit and
diverted products within the pharmaceutical and healthcare
industries.
