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The move to add tiny radio antennas on shipments of pharmaceuticals will not be enough to prevent counterfeiting and tampering, analysts said. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and several drug makers announced they would be putting RFID-tagged labels on medicine bottles beginning with the impotency drug Viagra, which is heavily counterfeited, and the narcotic pain reliever OxyContin.
Re: RFID Tags May Not Reduce Drug Counterfeiting
Posted by: 480c54h 2004-11-21 15:47:12 In reply to: Susan B. Shor
RFID does not provide for pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting. It is the "chain-of-possession" model that serves the industry. Any serialization method could be used (including bar codes).
