Technology Disintegration test Protection strategy Product authentication Type Analytical technique System Laboratory based Medium Medicine (pill form only) Authentication/Identificaton Authentication Traceability No Cost Price on request Required equipment Solvents in some cases Vertification level Authorities with the adequate equipment; Laboratories N.B. Description Test of the frangibility/hardness of the pill (by hand): a genuine medicine cannot be crushed between a thumb and a finger. Dissolution test: the suspected product is dissolved in water or in a specific solvent and comparing with the dissolution rate of a reference product Strengths Rapid; Easy to use; Low cost; Can be used on the field; Limitations Requires specific equipment (solvents if the pill is not soluble in water); Destruction of the packaging and the pill; Pill form only; Requires dissolution reference of genuine product or the genuine product itself; Links:
Technology Disintegration test
Protection strategy Product authentication
Type Analytical technique
System Laboratory based
Medium Medicine (pill form only)
Authentication/Identificaton Authentication
Traceability No
Cost Price on request
Required equipment Solvents in some cases
Vertification level Authorities with the adequate equipment; Laboratories
N.B.
Description Test of the frangibility/hardness of the pill (by hand): a genuine medicine cannot be crushed between a thumb and a finger. Dissolution test: the suspected product is dissolved in water or in a specific solvent and comparing with the dissolution rate of a reference product
Strengths Rapid; Easy to use; Low cost; Can be used on the field;
Limitations Requires specific equipment (solvents if the pill is not soluble in water); Destruction of the packaging and the pill; Pill form only; Requires dissolution reference of genuine product or the genuine product itself;
Links:
Technology Disintegration test
Protection strategy Product authentication
Type Analytical technique
System Laboratory based
Medium Medicine (pill form only)
Authentication/Identificaton Authentication
Traceability No
Cost Price on request
Required equipment Solvents in some cases
Vertification level Authorities with the adequate equipment; Laboratories
N.B.
| Description | Test of the frangibility/hardness of the pill (by hand): a genuine medicine cannot be crushed between a thumb and a finger. Dissolution test: the suspected product is dissolved in water or in a specific solvent and comparing with the dissolution rate of a reference product |
| Strengths | Rapid; Easy to use; Low cost; Can be used on the field; |
| Limitations | Requires specific equipment (solvents if the pill is not soluble in water); Destruction of the packaging and the pill; Pill form only; Requires dissolution reference of genuine product or the genuine product itself; |
| Links: |