With an embedded microcontroller, large amounts of data can be stored on the card itself rather than in a central database, and counterfeiting such a card is difficult.
Experts at the CIVB have begun paying visits to local wine shops and grocery stores, compiling a database of counterfeit names and investigating links between the sellers and fraudulent producers, the article says.
Hence, our goal was to evaluate the CIS database for reported Counterfeit Incidents in the legitimate supply chain as a potential means to identify macro counterfeit drug characteristics and to inform future development of Counterfeit Incident surveillance, reporting, and data analysis and use.
QuickLink, for example, is talking to the European Community about using the pen to scan serial numbers from paper bills of the euro and then compare them with numbers in databases to track counterfeits.
The most frequently counterfeited products identified in the database were antimalarial medicines with 75 samples, representing 92.6% of all counterfeit medicines.
The trend of counterfeit medicines reported in the database was analyzed.
Specifically, we used the CIS because it is the only dynamic, functional global database that secures and collates information on Counterfeit Incidents, illegal pharmaceutical diversion, and theft worldwide.
9 Fortunately, Mackey and others report on novel results from the Pharmaceutical Security Institute's Counterfeit Incident System (CIS), a nonpublic database collecting information on incidents of diversion, theft, and fraud from 28 pharmaceutical companies.
In the database, a total of 81 products were classified as counterfeit.
We reviewed data from the CIS database at the PSI Vienna, VA, headquarters limited to Counterfeit Incidents reported in the legitimate drug supply chain.
This is notable given that noncommunicable disease, branded products are likely the focus of internal member-based CIS database reporting, yet still are found with a lower number of Detected Counterfeit Medicines reports than anti-infectives.
