"Turns out that Valimed checks only liquid medicines.. Bye Bye Pill Checker."
90% of all prescriptions are in the solid dosage form. UV cannot penetrate a significant percentage of solid meds due to the protective titanium dioxide outside coating.
For that matter, niether can IR, that's why a Pill Checker (TM- Crow) needs to have several different ways of confirming a prescription drug. Size, shape, color, surface texture....
Read about ASD's RxSpec or give them a call and learn more. That is why RxSpec operates in the VIS-NIR range for pills.
When they design a system for solutions I'll bet they include UV or UVF as well.
There's no magic box that can do it all. And no, the much touted SafePill will NOT solve the world's counterfeit prescription drug problem.
Not even the meth gun, if it works satisfactory (esp. for things other than meth), will solve the meth problem.
