Noninvasive Detection of Counterfeit and Substandard Vaccines and Biotherapeutics
This project aims to develop a simple, fast, inexpensive, and noninvasive technology and a testing facility to detect counterfeit and substandard vaccines.
Categories
Vaccines
Process control
Industry Need
Counterfeit detection technology faces two fundamental limitations:
Invasive analysis, which restricts inspection to a few vials per batch/shipment
Point-of-care detection by end users is not possible; detection is performed by highly trained personnel in labs
Other less fundamental but practical limitations include the cost and lengthiness of the detection.
Solution
The University of Maryland, Baltimore, aimed to overcome the fundamental limitations of current technologies by creating novel technology to detect counterfeit and substandard medicines.
This technology has the potential to enable end users, after minimal training, to conduct detection on every vial right before injection. The end-users include healthcare providers and even patients. This transformation is analogous to how cell phones transformed information recording and propagation; almost everyone can do it because the technology is simple, fast, and affordable.
Impacts
This novel technology will provide a simple, fast, inexpensive, and non-invasive way to detect counterfeit and substandard vaccines.
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