1 / FDA Consume r Hea l t h In fo r ma t ion / U . S . F ood and D r ug Admin i s t r a t ion DECEMBER 14 , 2007 Some of the Internet sites that sell pet drugs represent legitimate, reputable pharmacies, says Martine Hartogensis, D.V.M., Promotion and Advertising Liaison for FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM). But others are fronts for unscrupulous businesses operating against the law. ...

Most prescribers and patients in Ghana now opt for the relatively expensive artemether/lumefantrine rather than artesunate-amodiaquine due to undesirable side effects in the treatment of uncomplicated malaria. The study sought to determine the existence of substandard and/or counterfeit artemether-lumefantrine tablets and suspension as well as artemether injection on the market in Cape Coast. S...

In the modern era, with the growing need of biometric technologies, spoof attacks are becoming a serious concern. A number of solutions have been proposed to detect the use of fake fingerprints[3]. This paper takes advantage of skin elements in fingerprints, namely: minutiae points and Ridge Bifurcations to investigate spoof attacks. Graphical results using histogram approach in MATLAB show the...

OBJECTIVES To identify the authentication and detection rate of serialised medicines using medicines authentication technology. DESIGN AND INTERVENTION 4192 serialised medicines were entered into a hospital dispensary over two separate 8-week stages in 2015. Medicines were authenticated using secure external database cross-checking, triggered by the scanning of a two-dimensional data matrix w...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a potent technology that manufacturing enterprises can deploy to enhance supply chain management, inventory control and asset management effectiveness. However, counterfeit prevention is seldom addressed in these RFID applications. The quality image of reputable manufacturers is vulnerable to the damage caused by the expanding flow of counterfeit product...

OBJECTIVE To explore healthcare policy and system improvements that would more proactively respond to future penetration of counterfeit cancer medications in the USA drug supply chain using geospatial analysis. DESIGN A statistical and geospatial analysis of areas that received notices from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about the possibility of counterfeit Avastin penetrating the US ...