Bitter Pill: California's new electronic pedigree regulation will force every link in the pharmaceutical supply chain to rethink material handling

摘要

Big pharma has a big material handling problem. Make that several. Criminals are infiltrating the nation's pharmaceutical supply chain with knockoffs and diverting legitimate drugs to the black market. Although this is nothing new, the problem has worsened in recent years. Drug counterfeiters have become more sophisticated, and in the battle to protect public health, the wrong side is winning.