Retest date, expiry date, and the two conventions being confused
A document is only as good as the chain that connects it to the material, and most chains here are two or three links longer than the paperwork admits.
Counterfeits & mislabelling
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Argentina health authority warns on falsified dulaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
South Africa health authority warns on falsified dulaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
The Netherlands health authority warns on falsified liraglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Turkey health authority warns on falsified dulaglutide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Everything on the page, in the order a chemist would read it
The header identifies the batch, the table records the tests, and the footer says who is answerable. Two of the three are usually incomplete.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Why Medutest can tell you the mass is right and not that the sequence is
The Journal’s standing position: a mass that matches is necessary evidence of identity and nowhere near sufficient.
The batch number is the only thing connecting the page to the vial
A document is only as good as the chain that connects it to the material, and most chains here are two or three links longer than the paperwork admits.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Who signed this, and what did they undertake by signing it
A manufacturer’s certificate is a self-declaration. An accredited laboratory’s report is a third-party measurement. The trade prints both under one heading.
Six lines that would make an identity statement checkable
What the Journal asks for when it writes to a supplier about an identity claim, and how often it gets it.
What a batch number is supposed to mean
A document is only as good as the chain that connects it to the material, and most chains here are two or three links longer than the paperwork admits.
Brazil health authority warns on falsified exenatide pens
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.
Holograms, QR codes and other things that are not verification
Reported from the analysis, not from a warning notice.