CTTI’s latest recommendations will help researchers deploy mobile technologies in clinical trials and “pave the way for improving how we develop medicines,” says Pfizer exec.
In the war against counterfeits, regulators have concentrated on serialisation and ePedigree and missed an opportunity on product authentication, according to AlpVision.
Biofem Pharmaceuticals and NAFDAC have launched an anti-counterfeiting pilot project in Nigeria, using a mobile authentication service (MAS) to validate if a medicine is genuine.
Nokia, SAP and G&D are forming a company to provide anti-counterfeiting services which will draw on the firms’ respective expertise in mobile phones, supply chain technology and encryption.
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.
A global packaging firm has hooked up with a company specialising
in electronic disease management solutions to develop a new
generation of electronically-enhanced pharmaceutical packaging.
A twist on an existing security technology will use enhanced mobile
phones to help establish the authenticity of pharmaceutical
products in developing countries.