Posts tagged "Counterfeiting"
A pharmaceutical expert told me once, and I have confirmed this many times since from other sources, that quite often a drug recall will see the return of more product than was originally manufactured in the first place. That’s how porous the system is to counterfeiters and how vulnerable people are to fake drugs. This...
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Jan 19, 2010 • Comments Closed Thanks to Health Data Management we have this recent news about a letter penned by Premier, Inc., to U.S. House and Senate members asking them to retain the medical device Unique Device Identification (UDI) provision in any healthcare reform bill. The news item was written by Joseph Goedert. In it, he quotes the most relevant paragraph from Premier’s...
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Aug 17, 2009 • Comments Closed “Pstt, hey buddy, wanna buy a barcode?”
Okay, we continue to see bad actors in the supply chain and they continue to be . . .
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May 27, 2009 • Comments Closed Local broadcast news outlets routinely run stories warning viewers about the dangers of faulty, counterfeit
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May 2, 2009 • Comments Closed Counterfeit drug seizures throughout the European Union (EU) increased 500% in 2005, which is apparently the last year for which there are contemporary figures. This story in PharmTech
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The specific stats in this story, which I think comes out of Korea, aren’t easy to reconcile or fathom, but the main point is clear:
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Jan 28, 2009 • Comments Closed Dave Bailey, writing for computing.co.uk, provides a brief report on the outcome of a pilot program to test GS1 standards for their ability track and trace pharma
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Jan 22, 2009 • Comments Closed Tainted milk products were discovered and reported in China last September. Less than five months later
[Editor's note: the country of origin (COO) label issue continues to gain momentum. We've touched on labeling COO in a number of posts and examined the topic, both its myths and realities. This latest post by Sterling raises the bar further on this because
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Nov 27, 2008 • Comments Closed In an email forwarded to me recently, I became aware of a new two-page case study about Purdue Pharma expanding
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Nov 18, 2008 • Comments Closed This post is rated PG for parental guidance. It features this link where, in great detail, you can get an up close and personal look, literally, at how and why
GHS and Regulatory Labeling Challenges in the New Era 
