“Starting July 1, Florida’s pedigree law will require pharmaceutical distributors to document the chain of custody of prescription drugs in the state. On Jan. 1, 2007, a California statute with similar requirements will come into effect, and other states are considering comparable pedigree laws. Complying with those regulations will require disciplined processes that can track […]

Cardinal Health, Inc., an Energizer Bunny of pharmaceutical products and services in the health care industry, is moving to Phase II of its first “the “end-to-end pilot program” to test RFID in the drug supply chain. The pilot program will begin to tag medication with labels carrying unique data that can be captured and read […]

The pharmaceutical industry is a hotbed of opportunities for RFID companies whose technology can keep up with track-and-trace demands of federal and state regulators. Expect to see more announcements like this one: RFID provider Sirit, partnered with VendingTechnology Inc., a developer of advanced item level transaction and dispensing solutions, and Scopra Inc., a developer of […]

ROI projected in 12 months (This article originally appeared in a 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) By Larry Moffi, Contributing Editor, RFIDOperations MINONG, Wis.—When Jack Link’s Snack Foods chose to meet Wal-Mart’s RFID compliance deadline, it did so within 60 days of beginning the project, at a cost of just $48,000 and by adapting its financial […]

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According to ABI Research: “When Wal-Mart’s new CIO, Rollin Ford, addressed his troops upon taking office last week, he confirmed the company’s unabated enthusiasm for RFID, saying, ‘When Gen 2 was released we planned to make it our standard at the beginning of this year. We have done that, and I can confirm that we […]

Comparing RFID tags used in supply chain applications to contactless cards is like comparing go-carts to military tanks, says an HID Global spokesman in response to recent claims that RFID technology can spread viruses. RFID Viruses Pose No Threat for Access Control Applications IRVINE, Calif.– “RFID is a broad term that encompasses everything from simple […]

“The badges–which are encoded with an identification number and law enforcement agency number specific to the division–work in conjunction with Blackinton’s Enforcement Identification (Eid) software, which validates badges and verifies the wearer and tracks information on each badge in a department’s inventory. So far, three departments–the South Carolina Highway Patrol, the Brookline, Mass., Police Department, […]

Back-room alliances, sleepless nights and billions at stake (This article originally ran in the May 2005 issue of RFIDOperations) By Dann Anthony Maurno, Contributing Editor RFIDOperations Until Sept. 10, 2003, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had been nurturing the technology called Radio Frequency Identification. MIT’s Auto ID Center was a coalition of nearly 100 companies […]

“Eagle Global Logistics has installed technology to secure sensitive financial customer data in transit on the request of a large U.S. bank, a company executive said Monday. The Web-based application from ARGO Tracker Corp., which designs asset tracking platforms, collects data wirelessly through 802.15.4 ZigBee wireless protocol to continually monitor and track the location and […]