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RFID Labels On Prescription Drug Bottles
sonik1 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the Food and Drug Administration and several major drug makers are expected to announce an agreement Monday to put tiny radio antennas on the labels of millions of medicine bottles to combat counterfeiting and fraud. RFID labels provide a unique identifier that is almost impossible to copy. When pharmacists receive delivery, they should be able to pass a wand over the bottles and, through an online database, check the history of each. Each label costs 20 to 50 cents."
that is almost impossible to copy.
How often have we heard that.
Not to mention tracking. Since they're having to put them on labels here in the states you can bet they'll just put them on all of'em rather than segregate the gene pool - which will make drugs imported from canada oh so much easier to detect.
How long you think it will be before the post office is equipped with scanners for these things? Of course they'll argue it's to "protect us from terrorists that are trying to taint our drug supply..."
The obvious answer... never. I just spent 103 dollars on 2 prescriptions last week... without my basic insurance coverage; it would have been nearly 400 dollars. With such wonderful prices, I would not be surprised to see these cheap RFID tags end up costing more help to pad the pharmaceutical industries pockets just a little more.
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