Good pills, bad pills: USA launches Blockchain-pilot project against counterfeit Drugs

the The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is launching a Blockchain-project to Check the authenticity of drugs. The authority for food and medicine merged recently with the Blockchain - companies IDlogiq from California.

By Phillip Horch
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The Blockchain technology is known for more than for financial technologies in the sense of Bitcoin & co. their basic property, data always in blocks to define and thus to make it for anyone and everyone, freely accessible, makes them especially for the Verification of supply chains and the authenticity of data useful.

a pilot project for the verification of drugs

So the Blockchain technology is establishing itself to be an authenticity guarantee in the pharmaceutical industry. In this sense, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is starting a Pilot project, to verify via the Blockchain drugs with regard to their authenticity.

As you can see from a recent press release, cooperating with the authority for food and drugs with the California Blockchain-Start-up IDLogiq. In cooperation, the authority would like to develop with the organization of a System, by means of which the "national security of the medicines supply chain and future interoperability of secure electronic data exchange from and to" ensure.

The Blockchain solution from the house of IDlogiq is to ensure that medicines can be verified and tracked. In addition, the pilot project is to come up with a possibility of a system-wide solution to drug manufacturers creates. With a focus on the Blockchain-solution Tim Le, founder and CEO of Prescription Services Inc is., confident:

The IDLogiq solution is unique in that it is focused on the patient's orientation and user-friendliness. Its turnkey solution allows the medical staff, our patients the latest, digital, networked healthcare services. The mobile App provides our patients with an immersive user experience.

Fake-cancer drug, with fatal consequences

Ultimately, it is for counterfeit medicines to a problem that can sometimes be fatal. How the FDA at another point tells, she had to fight, in this context, for example, with fake cancer drugs. The latter were widely used under the brand name Altuzan, containing no active ingredient. A similar case occurred last year in Germany. How Correctiv reported, falsified a pharmacist from Bottrop over the years, cancer drugs, in order to enrich itself at its customers. The output was for the fraud victims, sometimes fatally.

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