UC Riverside’s $5 fake drug detector uses toy robot sensors to catch counterfeit medications

UC Riverside’s $5 fake drug detector uses toy robot sensors to catch counterfeit medications

At least 1 in 10 medicines in low- and middle-income countries are substandard or falsified. A 2023 UNODC assessment estimated 267,000 deaths per year from falsified antimalarials alone in sub-Saharan Africa, with nearly 170,000 more from counterfeit antibiotics. In the U.S., the problem is smaller in scale but growing: the CDC has warned about counterfeit… The post UC Riverside’s $5 fake drug detector uses toy robot sensors to catch counterfeit…