One of the gradually developing industries today is the pharmacy and healthcare industry. This industry has a good customer base when compared to the other type of retail business industries. In order to maintain this good customer base, any pharmacuetical company should maintain good quality of services.
The quality of services lies in the quality of medicational products they supply to their customers. For helping such businesses the National Medicines Verification System introduced the concept of FMD.
FMD Verification of medicines
It is a verification process in which the wholesalers can check the stock of medicines for fake products. Apart from the quality products, fake and falsified medicinal products are also available in the market today. So, in order to eliminate the risk of supplying fake products to the customers, wholesale pharmacies indulge in this FMD NMVS verification.
How this verification is carried out?
In this verification process a unique batch id or code has been asigned by the manufacturer to each batch of the products. This unique id is recorde with NMVS for each batch. Then, when the goods are out for supplying to the wholesalers, they will check the goods against FMD authentication.
It is must for any hospital, wholesale pharmacuetical company or any other medicinal product distributor to prevent the entry of falsified medicinal products into their supply chain. To achieve this purpose, the Falsified Medicines Directive has comes into force.
The pharmacuetical license holder has the responsibility to serialise and seal the products and to upload the unique barcodes to the EU hub. On the other hand, the healthcare or pharmacies has to verify the product against NMVS regulations. Once verified, the products can be out for sale to the end users.
How to do this?
Performing a FMD verification is not difficult today. Different software integrated with FMD feature are available in the market. Pharmacies and healthcare units can buy and make use of those software and technical systems. It has the pre-integrated feature to decommission the products. The main advantage of these software is, it reduces the risk of falsified products in the supply chain. Customer delivered products can also be indulge for FMD verification with these systems. If a customer raise a fake product complaint, the pharmacy just have to scan the product for its unique id and the results will appear in few minutes.