Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Tech Media Asks: Is RFID the Cure for Counterfeiting?

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Some say RFID is the antidote to drug counterfeiting.

But others, from tech publications like the EETimes, question this notion. Check out this excerpt:

The electronics industry has been counting on RFID’s adoption as the antidote to drug counterfeiting. But legal wrangling and federal foot-dragging, abetted by the powerful pharmaceutical lobby, are raising concerns that the technology’s adoption for tracking drugs through the supply chain may no longer be a given. More. [end] 

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