FDA seeks to deter fake medicine use
Issue date: 9/26/03 Section: News In Brief
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tagging bottles of pills with tiny transmitters may one day help keep counterfeits out of the drug supply, but until that or other protective technology arrives, patients must watch for fake medicines, a Food and Drug Administration official said Thursday.
''We need to raise the level of concern,'' said FDA pharmacy chief Tom McGinnis, who heads a new agency task force hunting ways to stop the growing problem of counterfeit medicine.
Drug manufacturers are anxiously awaiting that task force's conclusions.
Drug makers and sellers are urging FDA to consider a high-tech safeguard, tagging medicine with tiny radiofrequency chips that could let drugstores automatically tell the source of each bottle, McGinnis said.
''We need to raise the level of concern,'' said FDA pharmacy chief Tom McGinnis, who heads a new agency task force hunting ways to stop the growing problem of counterfeit medicine.
Drug manufacturers are anxiously awaiting that task force's conclusions.
Drug makers and sellers are urging FDA to consider a high-tech safeguard, tagging medicine with tiny radiofrequency chips that could let drugstores automatically tell the source of each bottle, McGinnis said.
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