Bilcare Research has launched a product to help check the menace of counterfeit drugs. The product has a label with a unique bar code made out of nanotechnology and fingerprinting.

Baxter Healthcare Corporation has introduced drug labels to help reduce medication errors by creating enhanced packaging that provides additional safeguards to assist clinicians in the correct identification of critical medications.

Tagsys to offer pharmaceutical manufacturers RFID track and trace technology  to cater the new legal requirements coming into force in 2009.