H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, the seventh largest pharmaceutical wholesaler, and Matrics Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of EPC-compliant Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems, today announced that H.D. Smith is the first wholesaler to install an EPC RFID system to track controlled substance pharmaceuticals in their distribution center. According to Liz […]

While the RFID industry has focused in the last couple of years on developing complex hardware to meet commercial demand, a group of companies are beginning to push low-end, inexpensive tags that could eventually impact the supply-chain. These products use exotic fabrications or magnetic signature techniques to provide a low-cost automatic ID alternative to traditional […]

Patrick Burns is a Senior Manager in Verisign’s Corporate Communications Group. What steps should companies exploring item-level RFID programs take to protect their customers from perceived or actual violations of privacy? One of the things that early developers of RFID have already discovered is that information about products is stored much better on a network […]

UPM Rafsec will supply RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) label transponders to the South Korean pharmaceutical company, Unimed Pharm Co., Ltd, for the tagging of individual packages of over-the-counter drugs. The agreement consists of the delivery of 100,000 RFID labels during 2004. Unimed Pharm will use the RFID labels in an effort to identify original drugs […]

Consumer product manufacturers (CPG) and retailers that want to navigate the expected four-year transition period as the industry adopts RFID tags should focus on key areas including data synchronisation, and finding uses that deliver meaningful benefits to consumers, according to a new report from management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. A.T. Kearney’s report aims to help […]

Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine Online | Column: RSA Musings “RSA did have something really innovative out on the show floor—a mock pharmacy from which you could order happiness, wisdom and intelligence pills. The pills, of course, were all from the same jar of jellybeans; no drugs were provided. But the idea was to give you […]

Retail and consumer products companies must continue to drive implementation of RFID data standards, item registry, and data synchronisation if they are to take advantage of collaborative technologies such as EPC, according to an action plan commissioned by a collaboration of RFID industry players. The action plan, entitled ‘Connect the Dots: Harnessing Collaborative Technologies to […]

MSNBC – Cloaking system for RFID tags unveiled “The blocker tags work by emitting radio frequencies designed to trick RFID readers into believing that they are being presented with unwanted data, or spam, causing the information collection devices to shun the incoming transmission. RSA claims that by placing an RFID-loaded product into a parcel bearing […]

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final report highlighting steps the agency is taking to keep the US drug supply secure in the face of increasingly sophisticated criminal efforts to introduce counterfeit drugs. And, with new technologies brought to the fore, RFID suppliers have been quick to announce their support and […]

Integrated RFID Offering Safeguards Pharmaceutical Supply Chain SANTA CLARA, Calif. and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/– Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), and SupplyScape Corporation announced today a Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeit RFID Package, an offering enabling companies in the pharmaceutical supply chain to combat counterfeiting and diversion while gaining efficiencies throughout the supply chain. The offering addresses […]