“We have technology that can empower patients to check to see if the cyberphysical watermark on the medications they are taking is real or counterfeit,” Kim said. Kim said pharmaceutical companies have the ability to track boxes or sheets of medications, but adding traceability directly on a pill could require adding numerous manufacturing and data management steps. Food and Drug Administration is requiring by 2023 that medications have unit-level traceability through the Drug Supply Chain Security Act.
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(Purdue University photo/John Underwood) Download image Young Kim, associate head for research and an associate professor in Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, shows the new anticounterfeiting technology for medications. Young Kim, associate head for research and an associate professor in Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, says the continued rise of counterfeit medications, pharmaceutical products and medical supplies can be attributed to the increase of online pharmacies, many of which are unregulated. The technology was developed by a team of biomedical engineers from Purdue University and was published in journal Advanced Functional Materials. However, new anticounterfeiting technology can turn a smartphone into a lifesaver by simply taking a picture of a cyberphysical watermark and confirming if the medication is real or not.
Counterfeit medications and pharmaceutical products are just a click away from being purchased from online pharmacies via smartphone. Purdue University biomedical engineers have developed new cyberphysical watermarks that allow people to check the medication’s authenticity with a smartphone. With the rise in the number of fake medications, the U.S.
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