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04/10/22 15:19 PM IST

QR codes will soon detect counterfeit medicines

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  • To mitigate the risk of consuming fake medicines, the government will soon implement a 'track and trace' mechanism for top drugmakers to prevent the use of substandard and counterfeit products.
Track and trace medicines
  • The proposed mechanism will allow customers to scan a QR code to access a government website.
  • Furthermore, these codes will authenticate the following information about the drug: identification code, proper and generic name of the drug, brand name, name and address of the manufacturer, batch number, manufacturing date, expiry date, and manufacturing licence number.
  • Consumers will be able to enter a unique ID code into the government portal and track it using their mobile phones.
  • In the first phase, approximately 300 top-selling medicines will have barcodes printed on primary packaging.
  • The centre is trying to establish a central database organisation where consumers may obtain data via a single bar code provider for the whole sector.
  • Approximately 10 per cent of medical items in low- and middle-income nations are substandard or faked, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), but such incidents occur everywhere.
Source- Times of India 

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