A Counter To Counterfeit Drugs
Thursday, July 31, 2008 - 09:35
in Mathematics & Economics
The counterfeiting of medicines has been known of since around 1990 and is a growing problem. Counterfeit medicines are estimated as more than 10% of the global medicines market and in some developing countries it is thought to be as high as 50%. Now, researchers are developing a system using a portable near infrared (NIR) spectrometer to identify counterfeits in the field.