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US 5,396,901 AGranted
Transdermal dosimeter device
OwnerMichael Phillipsinventor
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Abstract
Transdermally active pharmaceutical delivery systems and dosimeters are constructed to include a tamper-indicating adhesive component for securing to the skin of a patient. If an attempt is made to remove the device, the patient's physician is alerted.
Claims5
In a device for the transdermal collection of a composition from the physiologic system of a mammal, which comprises;
- a container for holding the composition;
- and adhesive means on the container for adhering the container to a wearer's skin;
- the improvement, which comprises;
- a tamper-indicating label associated with the adhesive means, said label comprising;
- a) a transparent facestock,
- b) a transparent release coating attached to a portion of one surface of the facestock for providing an indicia,
- c) a transparent primer attached to said surface of the facestock and said release coating forming a relatively continuous planar surface on said surface of the facestock,
- d) a relatively planar frangible, visible metal layer attached to said primer layer, and
- e) an adhesive layer attached to said metal layer;
- wherein said indicia is not visible until becoming permanently visible when said facestock is separated from said release coating;
- whereby if the adhesion between the skin and the container is broken, the label will give permanent indication of the breakage.
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