The latest blogs and information about IDLogiq and counterfeiting around the world.
On November 27, 2013, President Barrack Obama signed the Drug Quality and Security Act into law. This act serves as an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and grants the Food and Drug Administration additional means of regulating and monitoring the manufacturing process of drugs. It has become the cornerstone of combating counterfeit drugs in the United States and today we’ll be looking at it in more detail.
eAgile is an Internet of Things company founded in 2004. (The Internet of Things refers to the interconnection of various smart devices to the internet, such as TV’s, coffee makers, lamps, wearable tech, mobile phones, and so much more.) eAgile makes various devices which feature NFC and RFID technologies, and customize and personalize their products for each client. Their most popular products are custom RFID tags for a variety of different industries and eSeal smart packaging, which is geared more towards consumable products like cosmetics and medicine.
Early last year, however, Alibaba started to crack down on fake products being sold on their website. This all culminated in a landmark lawsuit, where Alibaba sued a vendor for selling fake cat food on its Taobao site.
In terms of storing data and matching things against a database, NFC is becoming one of the most popular and widely used technologies around. We can find them in all sorts of things, from chips in credit cards to scanners in mobile phones to children’s toys and more.
Recently we talked about pentobarbital being found in dog food. Today we’ll be discussing how it got there.
Disclaimer: If you are squeamish, this is not the blog post for you. It contains information on food production, which can be disturbing if the reader is not expecting it.
To find out where the pentobarbital could come from, we need to understand how dog food is produced.
With knowledge of counterfeit medication becoming more and more exposed, pharmaceutical companies around the world are stepping up and helping authorities combat the problem. We recently talked about how Pfizer has been working hard to prevent fake medicine. Today we’ll be talking about how Bayer, the makers of drugs like Aspirin and Xarelto, has renewed …
Counterfeit goods are almost as old as the concept of genuine goods. After all, no man is an island and whenever we have to rely on another person (or organization) for the things we want and need, there’s always been a chance the other person might try to swindle us into buying something of inferior …
In this day and age, we rarely build our own computers anymore. Some hobbyists do, but for the most part, people who use computers purchase them pre-assembled. This puts the responsibility of ensuring all the parts are genuine and working properly in the companies that make the computers. There are many ways to detect fake …
Most of our counterfeit drug-related posts so far have been from an American point of view, as most of our writers live and work in the United States. However, there are initiatives all over the world fighting back against fake medications. Today we’ll be taking a look at how the European Union is handling this …
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We’ve written posts about counterfeit medication, such as what the supply chain is, the dangers of fake medicines, and how pharmaceutical companies are taking steps to combat it. Today we’ll be talking about how fake drugs enter the market. Before getting to the first part of the medicine supply chain, however, we have to acknowledge …
