FDA gets anti-counterfeiting medicine devices
The Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) has taken delivery of two anti-counterfeiting medicine verification devices to assist its efforts to prevent the importation of counterfeit and substandard medicines into the country.The Raman TruScan Handheld Spectrometer which can sample 5,000 medicines within an hour, rapidly investigates the components of medicines and also differentiates counterfeit medicines from the genuine ones.
The devices, valued at $160,000, would facilitate the authority’s work in the control of substandard, spurious, falsely labelled and falsified medicines (SSFFC) on the Ghanaian market.
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