linkedin post 2013-03-20 06:00:21

COUNTERFEIT MEDICINES ARE RAMPANT IN SOME COUNTRIES and kill many patients annually. In places like Nigeria, the majority of medicines are counterfeit. This has been the case for a long time. So it is curious to see an initiative by INTERPOL and Pharma to finally acknowledge the problem, but only fund the initiative with a paltry 5,0 M USD. Is this how seriously the issue is taken? RFID and other technologies can make a dent in this problem, and have also been around for a long time. This is too little too late, and a black eye for Pharma PR.

http://www.pharmtech.com/pharmtech/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=807918&topic=344%2C371

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