A professor from the University of California Riverside has recently designed a new pharmaceutical drug coating that mimic the taste and look of candy, in what is being touted as a new way to virtually prevent pharmaceutical fraud, due to the sweet coatings ability to be tracked and traced.

Professor William Grover calls it “CandyCoded,” in which he uses many tiny nonpareils that look like traditional colored-candy, that act as an uniquely identifiable coating for pharmaceutical-grade capsules and pills.

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Courtesy: Scientific Reports

But these new coatings are so unique, each piece of a drug has been created with its own individual code that is stored and traced by the manufacturer. The university press release says,

‘… The nonpareils could be applied as a coating to each pill, giving it a unique pattern that could be stored by the manufacturer in a database. Consumers could upload a smartphone photograph of a pill and if its CandyCode matches one in the database, the consumer could be confident that the pill is genuine. If not, it is potentially fraudulent.’

Grover painted Tylenol capsules with nonpareils using edible cake decorating glue, and created an algorithm that transfers an image of a CandyCoded pill into a chain of texts and letters that can be stored in a computer database, and be looked up by the consumer. Even after physically bashing and abusing the pills that simulates being flung around in a package and during shipping, they still functioned and were able to be uniquely identified.

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Using CandyCodes to authenticate pharmaceuticals. By randomly affixing a number of distinguishable edible particles (in this case, multicolored nonpareil candies) to each pill after manufacturing, a pharmaceutical company gives each pill a universally-unique “CandyCode.” Each CandyCoded pill is photographed before packaging and distribution, and the pattern of particles in each photo is recorded (in this example, the manufacturer converts each photo into a set of text strings using a process detailed later in this work) and stored in a database of known-good CandyCodes. When a consumer receives the drug and wishes to verify its authenticity, the consumer uses their cameraphone to take a photo of a CandyCoded pill and uploads this photo to the manufacturer’s server, which performs the same pattern conversion and searches for a CandyCode with a matching or similar pattern in the database. In this example, Consumer 1’s CandyCoded pill has 27 strings (shown in green) that match the strings of a known-good CandyCoded pill in the manufacturer’s database, so the server informs Consumer 1 that their medication is authentic. However, Consumer 2’s CandyCode strings have no matches in the database of known-good CandyCodes, so Consumer 2’s drug must not have originated in the manufacturer’s facility and is not authentic, and the server warns Consumer 2 not to consume the medication. Courtesy: Scientific Reports

Using a computer simulation of even larger CandyCode libraries, I found that a company could produce 10^17 CandyCoded pills—enough for 41 million pills for each person on earth—and still be able to uniquely identify each CandyCoded pill.

Grover further noted

The university sees this as a potential method to prevent fraudulence and used to prove the product’s authenticity. ‘Bottle caps, for example, could be coated with adhesive and dipped in nonpareils to ensure the integrity of perfume or wine and garment or handbag hang tags could be coated with glitter,’ the college stated.

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Courtesy: Scientific Reports

The tests also found that test subjects were more apt to ingest the CandyCoded pills.

Anecdotally, I found that CandyCoded caplets were more pleasant to swallow than plain caplets, confirming Mary Poppins’ classic observation about the relationship between sugar and medicine.

Grover added

The full study and results are published by Scientific Reports.


AUTHOR COMMENTARY

When I first stumbled upon this headline, my immediate thought was, ‘If you thought the drug and substance abuse pandemic was bad already, just wait until this is replicated on a wide scale!’ -I think of things like those sugar-candy cigarettes they used to give to kids to promote the normalcy of smoking. Contrary to what this study promotes, I see the polar opposite as this will be ‘perfect’ to masquerade all kinds of deadly drugs and poisons, and trick a child into taking one.

Let your mind run wild for a second and think of all things that could be coated with this tech, and all the problems that that would cause…

But then when I started reading about how these things are being tracked and traced, then it made my disgust of this invention soar even higher. But, this falls in line with the current and future trend of tracking every last piece of possible data. First it’s drugs, then it goes to the food and water, and then tagged in the sewers; something I am sure you can you use your imagination and envision how that would play out, after seeing the draconian overreach per the Covid shamdemic! (ie. social credit scores, food IDs).

[12] Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; [13] Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: [14] Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

Job 20:12-14

[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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  • That’s creepy! Downright devilish! I can see it now: some Big Pharma devil in a Barney the dinosaur-esque costume passing out free samples of these candy coating poisons saying “Hey kids! Are you sick and tired of medicine that takes yucky? Well now we have candy medications-Candy-cations!”

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