Aegate

Aegate operates a highly secure real-time service to verify the authenticity of medicines. This operates seamlessly from manufacturer to pharmacy, and has been independently certified as reliable, secure and 100% accurate. Aegate fully meets the requirements of a number of worldwide legislative efforts to combat falsified medicines, including the EU Falsified Medicines Directive, and is the only medicines authentication provider to provide a validated hospital authentication service, developed in collaboration with the University of Oxford. Aegate are also one of the chosen service providers for the National Blueprint Service available to stakeholders in European countries. Aegate was established in 2003 and now has its authentication system operating in over 24,000 dispensing points. The Aegate service has checked over 3.7 billion medicine packs and has issued over 2.5 million individual patient safety alerts to pharmacies across Europe. Aegate has offices across Europe and North America and continues to grow year on year through international expansion.