Pharmaceutical Labeling

• Date: November 03, 2009
• Source: www.contractpharma.com

Drug counterfeiting is becoming a growing menace. With people buying prescription medicines online, it becomes all the more important to ensure that they are getting the genuine medicines. Counterfeit drugs are also proving to be a hit on the bottom line of drug companies as they are very cleverly done and go unchecked at first instance.

There have been several suggestions to counter this menace like use of color shifting inks, holograms and taggants as effective tools. However, RFID – Radio Frequency Identification tagging by manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers has proved to be the most effective technique in keeping a check on counterfeiting.

For more on how manufacturers are beefing up security to counter this menace read on..