“Easier to track drugs with a new EU-rules”

“A new EU legal framework is in place to make it easier to trace medicines. The goal is that it should lead to increased security, writes the Swedish medical products agency.”

“The so-called safety features on the läkemedelförpackningarna will look the same in the whole EU. It is about a säkerhetsförsegling that you can see if a package has been opened or not. The second case of a code which shall be unique for each individual package and should be stored in a database. The code should be verified each time the pharmacy is handling a package.”

“the security features will be appear on most prescription drugs and on certain over-the-counter, writes the agency.”