[IEEE-bhpjobs] IBM begins shipping RFID system for e-pedigree of pharmaceuticals

[Esther L.]

See http://www.newsobserver.com/1595/story/664603.html for details.

To help the pharmaceutical industry combat drug counterfeiting, IBM is 
launching an electronic pedigree system Thursday that tracks medications 
through the supply chain until they reach consumers.

A new law requiring that the pedigree be attached to aany mediciation 
distributed in the state goes into effect in 2009 in California.

There is a requirement for drug pedigress in an FDA regulation. However, 
implementation of that requirement has been stayed by a court 
injunction. See http://www.rfidupdate.com/articles/index.php?id=1260

SupplyScape, Sun, and Acsis are also solution vendors.


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