In July, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided "guidance advocating greater use of physical chemical identifiers (PCIDs) in drug formulations as a cost-effective way of authenticating genuine products from fakes."

Colorcon has responded with its "On-Dose ID tagging technology", for labeling individual drug tablets (although I didn't at time of writing see mention of it at http://www.colorcon.com/home ).

"The microscopic tags, which are incorporated into immediate-release film coatings for oral solid dose forms, can hold encrypted information ranging from lot and batch numbers to logos, text and other brand identification symbols. Tablets labelled with the 75 – 110 micron sized tags can be read using the portable “Vision” optical viewing system developed by Colorcon’s partner ARmark Authentication Technologies."

Please see the full article on in-Pharma's site here:

http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Materials-Formulation/Colorcon-rolls-out-On-Dose-ID-anti-counterfeiting-tech/?c=JiBz%2FX6W8971ORXdDDv0AQ%3D%3D&utm_source=newsletter_daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter%2BDaily

File this under "special approach, special reader needed."

Cheers,

Steve