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Anti-Counterfeiting Technologies in Healthcare

Roots Analysis

In order to effectively combat the problems related to counterfeit medicines, several companies have come up with innovative technologies to provide the necessary tools to manufacturers, healthcare professionals and patients to authenticate pharmaceutical products.

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Smart pharmaceutical and healthcare labels: Lets trace medicines from its origin

Roots Analysis

It is worth noting that smart labels contain a transponder code which can be read by sophisticated devices, including radio frequency identification device (RFID) tags and near-field communication (NFC) chips. While most smartphones can read NFC chips, RFID tags can only be read by specialized receivers.

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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. Twenty years ago, the cost of implementing RFID tags and the ecosystem (software) was much more expensive than today.

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A history of Pfizer

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It has been key in pushing counterfeit drugs up the political agenda, in part due to its ownership of that most counterfeited of drugs, Viagra. For all the latest Pfizer news follow pharmaphorum’s Pfizer tag. The post A history of Pfizer appeared first on.

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PFIZER REPORTS STRONG FIRST-QUARTER 2021 RESULTS

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healthcare reform or legislation or any significant spending reductions or cost controls affecting Medicare, Medicaid or other publicly funded or subsidized health programs or changes in the tax treatment of employer-sponsored health insurance that may be implemented; U.S. View source version on businesswire.com : [link]. Amy Rose 212.733.7410.