Institute of Medicine Seeks to Combat Conterfeit Drug Problem

Fighting the problem of fake drugs will require putting medications through a chain of custody like U.S. courts require for evidence in a trial, the Institute of Medicine reported Wednesday.The call for a national drug tracking system comes a week after the Food and Drug Administration warned doctors, for the third time in about a year, that it discovered a counterfeit batch of the cancer drug Avastin that lacked the real tumor-killing ingredient.

Source: PharmaManufacturing.com - February 13, 2013 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Pharma Manufacturing Source Type: news