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亞太製藥巨頭 Zuellig Pharma 正在使用 SAP 的區塊鏈平台幫助消費者識別藥品原產地。 發展中國家使用的藥品中有十分之一被視為假藥,因此迫切需要根除可能對患者構成危險的假藥。

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), counterfeit drugs, while seemingly identical to the real thing, often “fail to properly treat the disease or condition for which they were intended, and can lead to serious health consequences, including death”.

However, cracking down on counterfeit drugs can be quite time-consuming. At Zuellig Pharma, a regional pharmaceutical giant in the Asia-Pacific region, state how it could take weeks to do so, as it needs to gather data from different parties across its supply chain. This is where the blockchain technology comes in to play. Zuellig Pharma has recently developed the ‘eZTracker’ smartphone app, powered by SAP’s blockchain platform, that lets consumers verify the authenticity of a drug and if it has been legitimately distributed by scanning a barcode.

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