Crow,
"That is right..Diddy.. pills have inert ingredients. But Valimed can identify none of them unless they respond to UV stimulation and flourese, and there is a signature loaded. It will identify nothing unless signatured. How can it?? It ain't magic."
Not totally inert Crow, meds have non-active ingredients that do serve a non-medicinal function (eg, binders & lubricants). If any of these ingredients fluoresce in the spectral region of interest then they become part of the signature.
I talked with "the right people" at the FDA about Valimed after they reviewed the website and their first impresssion was that it was a "pharmacists tool". One thing they pointed out was that pharmaceutical companies can change certain non-active ingredients in their formulations without FDA reapproval. Now if those changes effect the signature then that will be a big problems for the use of Valimed as an aid to counterfeiting.
"I doubt that it will chack the degree of salinity in a drip mixture either..and surely not the microbes that might lurk there."
I agree. If the saline solution consists of simple chloride salts of Na and K, then I don't beleive that they can be fluoresced using UV.
I also wondered if TPN's contained mineral supplements. If so, that would pose a similar problem. I don't believe that any metal elements will fluoresce and the chelating agent used to allow the body to simulate them would probably cause complications as well.
"LOL!! We are morphing lots of Nouns into verbs or adverbs here. Its a wonder that Sanddollar ain't jumped on us for it."
She's come to accept our deviant ways over the years and even indulges herself on occasions (errr, but of course quite deliberately) LOL!
