Investigating counterfeit rabies vaccines in a Philippine hospital

Inside Out Quality: A Case of Counterfeit Rabies Vaccines and Supply Chain Risk

We are all familiar with counterfeit money, but what happens when your vaccine supply is counterfeit? In this episode, Diane and I interview Dr. Karl Henson from The Medical City hospital in Pasig City of the Philippines. He shares their story of both identifying the counterfeit rabies vaccines that were injected into patients and the steps they took to prevent it from happening again. We are also joined by Daniel Stanton, President and Co-Founder of SecureMarking and author of Supply Chain Management for Dummies, and Mark Manning, Founder and CEO of iTrace Technologies. We discuss the impact of counterfeit goods on company revenue, and in the case of counterfeit pharmaceuticals and medical devices, the potentially dire consequences to patient health. Daniel and Mark educate us on how counterfeit products enter the supply chain and what technologies are available to help manufacturers, including biotech companies, prevent it.