This Startup Built A Device To Figure Out If Prescription Drugs Are Fake

Eillie Anzilotti, Fast Company
Mon, 03/25/2019 - 8:00am

Counterfeit medications claim thousands of lives each year. Nigerian entrepreneur Adebaye Alonge built a scanner that can detect fake drugs in 20 seconds to protect people from this growing issue. In Africa, the counterfeit drug trade is a $30 billion operation. As pharmaceutical sales have grown the past few decades, suppliers have begun to flood markets with cheap fake drugs–which may contain improper doses, incorrect or entirely absent active ingredients, or may have been stored in substandard conditions and expired.

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