Drug Delivery, Dug Packaging, Labelling & Dispensing Volume 1- Issue 358 Journal For Patient Compliance Strategies to enhance Health Outcomes Industry-Suitable Technologies for Protection of Pharma Products against Counterfeiting Drug Delivery, Drug Packa

prevention of the entry of falsified medicinal products into the legal supply chain, it appears clear that patient safety will be achieved with the combination of three components:- Verification of the authenticity of the medicinal product,- Identification of individual packs,- Verification of the outer packaging to uncover any tampering. This series of measures to increase patient safety shall come into force by January 2013 in the member states. There are several estimations as to how much these measures will cost the pharmaceutical industry to comply with this directive. This paper concentrates on the authentication features and the way they can be implemented within the manufacturing plants of the pharmaceutical laboratories. authentication and Identification Some papers and conferences have reported that identification of individual packs can be used to show up counterfeiting. More and more experts, however, have doubts