India Mandates QR Codes on Drugs Despite Industry Pushback

Imagine medicines have special barcodes, like the ones on food.

The Indian government wants to put these barcodes, called QR codes, on medicines like vaccines and cancer drugs.

You can scan them with your phone to make sure the medicine is real and safe.

This helps stop fake medicines and makes it easier to track where medicines come from.

Some drug companies don't like this because they worry it will cost them a lot of money and people don't scan them enough.

But the government decided to do it anyway, because they think it's important for everyone's health and safety.