According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the fake drug market has become an ever-increasing threat to the health of the world’s population. But it poses a special danger to…
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SMS-Verification of Drugs
At the end of 2013, several large media outlets reported that India was planning to launch a new information service soon. The Ministry has long had a barcode database for…
World Health Assembly: Drugs Must Be Quality and Affordable
The trade in counterfeit medicines also applies to vital medicines. The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with Interpol to eradicate criminal networks that receive billions of dollars from this…
A Global Problem: Impurities in Counterfeit Drugs
The global pharmaceutical market today is literally littered with fake drugs. Each of us can become their victim because it is very difficult to recognize a fake. The worst thing…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Drug Heads List of the Most Promising Drugs in 2015
Thomson Reuters’ Intellectual Property and Science, a leading provider of analytic information for businesses and professionals, presented the annual Most Promising Medicines of 2015 annual report. The analysis identified 11…
Europol Controls Drugs’ Production
A special operation by European law enforcement agencies, customs services and health regulators led to the seizure of banned and fake drugs worth more than €168 million. This was reported…
GPHF-Minilab in Haiti
A hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after a splush of counterfeit medications, has arranged a GPHF-Minilab. Its main objective is to help detect fake medications. The GPHF-Minilab was definitely created by…
Fatal Pharmaceuticals: Counterfeit Drugs in Indian Cities
Indian law enforcement authorities seized a large batch of counterfeit psychotropic drugs intended for distribution in Russia, the UK and the United States. In particular, the police seized large batches…
Nigeria: Mobile Technology as a Weapon Against Drug Counterfeiting
One of Nigeria’s pharmaceutical companies began to use the mobile technology with the goal of confronting the growing threats associated with the penetration of counterfeit drugs into the pharmaceutical market….
Mobile Application for Drug Authenticating in Ukraine
Ukraine introduces new rules designed to reduce the sale of fake drugs. The corresponding decision was adopted on July 24 by the Cabinet of Ministers. From September 1, 2019, special…
3 Million 500 Thousand Methamphetamine Tablets Seized in Northern Thailand
3 million 500 thousand tablets of methamphetamine and 9 kg of crystalline methamphetamine were confiscated in Thailand, Bangkok Post reported. At about 05:00 local time, a group of Thai servicemen…
SMS Based Drug Authentication System
Sproxil, which developed an SMS service to determine the authenticity of drugs, announced the signing of a contract with the Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel. Thanks to this, India has…