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HealthBiz: RFID for drugs on the way.(UPI Science Report)
Byline: ELLEN BECK
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are the first drugmakers willing to take the plunge and use radio frequency identification technology to protect their U.S. drug supply chains from counterfeiters.
On the other end, Walgreens and CVS, the nation's biggest pharmacy companies, also are involved in testing RFID to see if putting the tiny electronic devices on pallets, packages and bottles of drugs can track them accurately through the supply and distribution chain.
Walgreens and CVS, like Pfizer, Abbott Labs, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble and others, have participated in Project Jumpstart, a demonstration program through which the pharmacies receive prescription products with RFID tags on bottles and cases. So far, the results have been positive in terms of the technology's ability to create an electronic pedigree for tracking purposes.
Pfizer said Monday it is going beyond testing and by 2005 will tag its highly counterfeitable Viagra; Purdue Pharma is tagging 100-tablet bottles of the powerful painkiller OxyContin, which has been used as a recreational drug, therefore making…
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