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‘Edible Barcodes’ Help Fight Counterfeit Drugs

July 10, 2015 by adminficci News 0 comments

Who knew that the answer to fighting the trillion-dollar global counterfeit drug problem rested in a particle the size of a speck of dust? At least that’s what entrepreneur Dr. Hank Wuh is counting on with TruTag Technologies, one of the companies that falls under the larger umbrella of Skai Ventures, the tech-focused venture capital accelerator that he founded. The central idea behind the tech company are “TruTags” – invisible, edible barcodes that can be planted right onto medicine to verify that the pills and tablets you might consume are the real deal.

http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/edible-barcodes-help-fight-counterfeit-drugs-150710.htm

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