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Abstract: Counterfeit
medicine is a major threat to the pharmaceutical industry. Seven percent of the
medicine worldwide is counterfeit; however, advances in packaging and labeling technologies are coming to the industry’s aid. Pharmaceutical companies are using pilot projects to help labeling implementations throughout the supply chain to increase the availability of safe, licensed
medicine and thwart the underground drug market.
PubDate: 6/22/2007 1:00:00 PM
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