Fake medicines?
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Here's a link to the pill identification wizard. You can describe the pill to the system and it will tell you what kind of pill it is.
Are you thinking you've been given a placebo or a generic form of medicine? At any rate, this would be a good place to start.
I would trust a pharmacy for any medicine.They would have supplier's that buy from name brand and well know companies. How ever the large companies still have problems [Vioxx] for example. Pills are marked to identify them -size,shape,colour and numbers or letters stamped on them. The fakes are from some illegal persons operation and sold on the street or buy the hand full,or try this I got them from a friend.
signs of counterfeiting such as improper packaging, Labelling or description of dosage. All suspicious products with incorrect labels, missing information about the strength, dosage, or expiration date should be reported to the appropriate national authority or to the WHO or FIP.
Any medicine should be packaged in a container, which can be anything from a glass bottle to a blister pack, to a tube of glass, plastic or metal. A folding carton bearing the label very
often protects the container. Check the type of packaging and compare it to known containers for the same product from the same manufacturer. The packaging and the labelling of pharmaceutical products is a very complex and an expensive business. Thus, the process and the quality of packaging material are difficult to counterfeit. This is why a thorough visual inspection could be an important screening step for product quality control.
However, producers of counterfeit products are quick to copy special labelling and holograms
Yes No Other Observations
Container and Closure
Does the container and closure protect the product from the outside environment; e.g.is the container properly sealed?
Do they assure that the product will meet the proper specifications throughout its shelf life?
Are the container and the closure appropriate for the product inside?
Is the container safely sealed?
Label
The information written on the label is very important. The information can be printed on a label adhered to the container, or printed directly onto the container itself, but all information must be legible and indelible.
If there is a carton protecting the container, does the label on the carton match the label on the container?
Is all information on the label legible and indelible?
are u meaning generic?? if so the labels are clearly marked with generic and the generic for IE. ...proxyphene/apap 100/650 generic for darvocet 100 the 650 is the amount of Tylenol in the pill
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