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| December 07, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2009 NewsRX. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

2004 DEC 7 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The makers of the impotency drug Viagra and the painkiller OxyContin said November 15, 2004, they will add radio transmitters to bottles of their pills to fight counterfeiting.

The technology will allow the medicines to be tracked electronically from production plant to pharmacy, a development the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said is an important tool to combat the small but growing problem of drug counterfeiting.

The devices will be part of the large bottles that manufacturers ship to drug stores and wholesalers, not the containers that consumers take home from their pharmacies. Most counterfeiting occurs…

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