Siemens Collaborates With EFPIA

A growing menace of pseudo prescription drugs in Europe’s traditional supply chain is very alarming. In order to tackle this, Siemens and EFPIA (European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations) have partnered to launch a pilot project to develop more effective coding for packaging, reported Packaging Digest.

In line with the joint effort, EFPIA has set in motion a project model based on testing of a coding and identification solution, and Siemens IT Solutions and Services is supplying the requisite information and communications technology.

The IT solutions provider will test the reliability and identify the product at all times. The project will enable monitoring the medicines entire movement throughout the supply chain.

EFPIA has put forward a new set of identification codes which will help the pharmacists to check for a unique code on each of the medicinal packet before rationed out to the patients. The pharmacists can check the already marked ones in the database and recognize if the drug pack is bogus or not. If its is found to be a counterfeit one, an internal trigger raises an alarm. Pharmacists can thereby initiate an investigatory process, quoted packagingdigest.com.