Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting: Combating the Real Danger from Fake Drugs - Hardcover

Davison, Mark

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470616172 ISBN 13: 9780470616178

Publisher: Wiley, 2011

Synopsis

This book overviews and integrates the business and technical issues that pharmaceutical companies need to know in order to combat the major global problem of counterfeit medicines. In addition to discussion of the problems, the author Davison addresses analytical techniques scientists use to detect counterfeits and presents some possible solutions to the threat of counterfeit medical products. Coverage moves from basic overview of the problem, costs / risks to consumers (toxic products, mistrust of drug companies) and business (revenue loss, public trust), government oversight and regulation, authentication strategies (packaging, analytical techniques), product tracking and supply chain, and case studies from around the globe.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Effective strategies to deal with the growingproblem of counterfeit drugs

Counterfeit and illegally diverted drugs are a global problem representing a serious threat to patients and to our healthcare systems. To combat fake medicines you need to understand both the problems and the solutions. This book gives you these vital perspectives. It not only provides a detailed examination of the causes and consequences of pharmaceutical counterfeiting, it also provides practical advice and tested and proven strategies to deal with this growing threat to the international drug supply. Moreover, it investigates and explains the tactics and technologies you need to protect your patients, brands, and profits.

Addressing both business and technical issues, this book enables you to understand and tackle the problem of counterfeit and illegally diverted drugs on all fronts:

• Guides you through the complex legal and compliance issues

• Explores the complexities of the drug supply chain, demonstrating why certain approaches to reducing counterfeit drugs are more likely to work than others

• Sets forth the pros and cons of technologies designed to authenticate drugs and secure packaging, to enable traceability or e-pedigree, and to protect the supply chain

• Offers an easy-to-read guide for patients to help them avoid counterfeit drugs

• Illustrates key problems and solutions using realistic examples

• Features anti-counterfeiting case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America

Covering pharmaceutical security from factory to patient, this book helps you better understand the issues around counterfeiting and diversion and then implement effective strategies to fight back against these pharmaceutical crimes.

About the Author

MARK DAVISON, CEO of Blue Sphere Health, is a pharmaceutical consultant and entrepreneur with more than twenty years of industry experience. He was formerly business development director for healthcare at SICPA, one of the world's leading anti-counterfeiting and product security technology providers, where he gained an in-depth, global perspective on counterfeit pharmaceuticals and medical devices. He is a writer, seminar leader, and international conference speaker on pharmaceutical security matters. His article "Drugs for the Developing World: Obligation, Opportunity and Threat" won the Royal Society of Medicine Oswald Morton Essay Prize in 2010.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0470616172
• ISBN 13: 9780470616178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 426