What is the EU falsified medicines directive and its impact on Indian pharma?

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EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD, Directive 2011/62/EU) requires: (1) all prescription medicine packs to have unique serial number QR code (serialisation), (2) tamper-evident features on all packs, (3) medicines to be scanned at point of dispensing against an EU medicines verification database. Indian pharma exporters supplying EU-labelled packs must ensure their packaging meets EU FMD serialisation standards.

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