Strasbourg, 01.02.2012 – The Council of Europe and its European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) have launched “eTACT”, an IT-based traceability service which will allow consumers to check the authenticity of their medicines using smartphones or the internet.

“eTACT”– part of the Council of Europe’s global strategy to counter fake drugs - is a publicly governed service which covers all medicines in the legal supply chain and will be open to the 36 member states of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission and beyond. (more...)