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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

FAKE MEDICINES are not a new problem, and pose a tremendous threat to patient safety and public health in society regardless of a country’s economic status. 1 Simply, pharmaceutical products are the most vulnerable to counterfeiting. 1 Simply, pharmaceutical products are the most vulnerable to counterfeiting.

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RFID: The future of smart labelling?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The pharmaceutical industry began using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in the early 2000s. Pfizer was the first to use the tech, adding RFID tags to track a Viagra (sildenafil) shipment circa 2006. As computing has developed in the past decade, so has the potential to store and use information in the cloud.