Placebo Pill Markings (Top voted first)
UpdatedAre manufacturers allowed to mark placebo sugar pills with the same markings as real pills? I know the giant bottles they keep medicine in at the pharmacies would be marked differently, but I'm assuming the risk of a mix up would be too high for the makers to mark the pills themselves the same.
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No, not in the U.S. all pills must have unique imprints allowing them to be identified in case of emergency, according to manufacturer, active ingredient and dosage, thus to mark a placebo the same would make this futile and break the law.
I think the only exception to this would be in the case of birth control pills - during the cycle of taking them, there are 'off-days' in the cycle where the pill does not actually contain any hormones. Those placebo pills are specially marked within the packaging. Other than that, a placebo would never have the same exact markings as the real pills...
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