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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

2 The global counterfeit pharmaceuticals trade is estimated to be worth billions annually, 3 bolstered significantly by the increased illicit online pharmacies that emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) further estimates that 97 percent of online pharmacies are operating illegally.

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How is digital technology helping Indian pharmacists

Express Pharma

Other related technologies such as scanning barcode labels on packages have also facilitated electronic purchasing and procurement on a larger scale. However, a management system can help ensure the security and availability of all medicine stocks, resulting in cost savings.

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Tackling fake pharmaceuticals: an industry united against counterfeit products

European Pharmaceutical Review

These may be mislabelled or produced in fake packaging and, most dangerously, there is no regulation around their manufacture. As a result, the development of advanced packaging-level tokens has led to watermarking techniques; invisible, encoded data that requires specialist verification software. Supply-chain visibility.

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Internet Pharmacies are an Often-Overlooked Part of the Medicines Supply Chain

Quality Matters

Of the roughly 35,000 online pharmacies worldwide, 95% operate illegally across the globe – in violation of local laws and relevant pharmacy practice standards – and approximately 20 new illegal online pharmacy websites go live globally every day, according to statistics from the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP).

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How Amazon could Disrupt Pharmacy Services

The Digital Apothecary

Ever since Christina Farr of CNBC broke the news of Amazon expressing an interest of getting into the Billion Dollar Pharmacy market, I have been having multiple conversations with many people inside and outside of pharmacy on how this will change "everything." Each has pros and cons of services. after seeing a doctor visit.

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Before & After: Pharmacy’s Digital Revolution

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56 UK Online Pharmacies in 2008/9 ( Statista ). 375 and counting…UK Online Pharmacies (DSP’s) in 2022 ( Statista ). 34.7million views of our Google Adverts for pharmacies since 2021. The Digital Revolution in numbers: 721 million UK Prescriptions Dispensed in 2005 (Pharmaceutical Journal).

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Are microtaggants the key to making medicines smarter?

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The threat of illegal online pharmacies. Many countries have introduced serialisation legislation which requires product identifiers to be affixed to each package to provide traceability throughout the distribution supply chain. This technology can also play an important role in supporting virtual clinical trials.