Fake Viagra And Cialis Bust In North Carolina One of the Biggest in Years–Still Need Bar Coding of Products and Devices to Help Out

This is good to see one of those folks get caught as I like everyone else get tired of the spam that seems to to along with this, so perhaps with a major bust like this maybe the spammers might have less to spam us with? That of course is the bonus of getting the fake products off the market.

A good point here is made too, if it is fake, then what is it? It could be nothing but maybe sugar pills but then again it could be some other drug that could kill you too. The FDA puts out notices all the time about food supplements that come in from over seas that contain the same active ingredient that is found in Viagra so those with heart issues could have problems. I keep promoting use bar codes that have encrypted data inside, so if the consumer scans the product and no results, which also can be monitored with the tag with only allowing authentic products to go through, then don’t touch it.

Counterfeit Alli Warning from the FDA – We Should Be Using Technology for Easier Identification

A while back I wrote a few posts about using Microsoft Tags for identifying items that had been recalled. In giving this some further thought, this process could also be beneficial for finding counterfeits as well. In addition, those scans can be read and followed up with a heat map too so the scans can be registered and again with an encrypted tag and gateway this could be a pretty good solution and make it harder for the counterfeits to do business. Devices are counterfeited too so one software solution for many cures. BD

Counterfeit Johnson & Johnson OneTouch Products Investigation – One More Good Reason to Start “Tagging” Products for Consumers So We Can Scan for Authenticity

CHARLOTTE, NC – It’s one of the biggest counterfeit busts in recent history.

Thursday, authorities arrested 54-year-old Awni Zayyad. The Wilson, North Carolina resident is accused of trafficking over a thousand fake Viagra and Cialis pills.

“My first reaction when I hear that is, ‘If it’s fake, what is it?’ You have absolutely no clue what could be in these drugs,” says Charles Odell, with the Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency.

Odell says he often sees overdoes from fake drugs.