Nigerian Food and Drug Administration introduces RFID to identify the authenticity of drugs
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The Nigerian Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter referred to as NAFDAC) has introduced an RFID system to detect counterfeit drugs in the country and ensure the safety of drug use by people in the country. Once the domestic drugs are embedded in RFID tags, all pharmacies in the country will be required to guide the system.
The problem of counterfeit medicines in Nigeria is quite serious. In 2008, in order to solve the problem of counterfeit drugs, NAFDAC announced 22 counterfeit drug importers and distributors, and prohibited more than 40 drugs from being used in China.
Counterfeit medicines not only affect the circulation of domestic medicines, but may also endanger the health of Chinese people. NAFDAC has already planned to introduce related systems to solve the problem of counterfeit drugs. However, the cost of RFID system construction is too high, and many pharmacies in Nigeria have not introduced related RFID systems. Therefore, NAFDAC hopes to introduce a low-cost RFID system that is applicable to thousands of pharmacies and consumers in the country.
At the beginning of 2010, the system builder GlobalPCCA began to cooperate with Verayo and SkyeTek to import its anti-counterfeiting RFID chip and reader to identify the authenticity of tags. The system can be mounted above the pharmacy cash register. There are red and one green LED lights embedded in the reader. When the locomotive section reads successfully, the green light flashes; if the reading fails, that is, the medicine is a counterfeit medicine, the red light flashes. The system uses passive 13.56 MHz tags and complies with the ISO 14443-A standard.
When the reader reads the chip, the chip responds with a set of identification codes or letters. The system will determine the authenticity of the chip according to the returned identification code, and then use the flashing light on the device to inform whether it is a fake chip. If there is a sudden power failure, the system can also operate normally, and there is no need to build a back-end system to store data. The system builder said that the simple operation function is the biggest feature of the system. There are only two buttons on the reader: the power button and a flashing light that shows the authenticity of the label. The system can be applied to general consumers to purchase drugs and suppliers to check the use of drugs.
System builders expect that the price of RFID tags purchased in large quantities is less than ten dollars. This is the current challenge faced by system builders. GlobalPCCA said that similar systems will be imported into universities or bank file tracking applications. Currently, detailed discussions are being carried out with the application side.
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