Fake Drugs Spotted By Laser

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by Dafé,

A promising new way to spot counterfeit drugs while still in the packaging:

In some countries in south-east Asia and Africa, hundreds of people have died after taking contaminated fakes, or are fraudulently sold medicines with no active ingredients. In some of those countries, about half of all medicines on sale are counterfeit drugs. A new hand-held device using a variant of Raman spectroscopy, a routine analytical technique, helps produce a unique spectral fingerprint for that substance, enabling counterfeit drugs to be distinguishable from their genuine ones. While the costs of these hand-held detectors are relatively high for now, the fight to combat global counterfeiters is extremely important, especially in the era of high-priced blockbuster drugs.

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