In developing countries approx. 10 % of all medicines are falsified. The securPharm system in Germany prevents this high level of counterfeiting. It allows to identify and stop counterfeit drugs along the supply chain. The identification works via a data storage and polling system on supranational level. Based on system difficulties, pharmacies do not accept the system fully. Besides online pharmacies are an issue because they are not as much secured as the stationary distributors. Subsequently a comparison of the European and the US system shows their equality in most of the elements.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 37 | 2021 | Edition 2 | Pages 44-47 | DOI
10.30844/I40M_21-2_S44-47
