[jschulenklopper]

For some pills, detecting counterfeits doesn’t make sense indeed.

But, there are really expensive pills out there for which it might do. Look up Zokinvy or Zolensma.

BTW, you’ll like want the fake detection to be possible _before_ tasting it. And because of the often awful taste, people tend to swallow pills as quickly as possible.

[bryanrasmussen]

I figured the candy coding might make it taste better?

I naively would expect if I were paying a lot for a pill I would have a trustworthy chain set up but probably that is not the case.

[throwaway81523]

The movie The Third Man was (in part) about a guy who sold fake (diluted) penicillin in post-WW2 Vienna.