The CPG-packaging RFID integrator, Checkpoint Systems Inc., has made an initial minority investment in Goliath Solutions, a start-up developer of RFID technology for point-of-purchase advertising and display compliance, targeting grocery stores, drugstore chains, mass merchandisers, and convenience stores. Strategically positioned advertising and marketing displays within a retail store’s dynamic selling space can dramatically increase consumer […]

United Press International: Radio tags could help health, hurt privacy “”Pharmaceutical information is intimately related to health or medical information, which society has long treated as very sensitive and private,” Tien said. “Think about all the ‘personal’ items we buy at the drugstore. My wife wouldn’t want anyone to know she had bought a home […]

RFID Journal – RFID Touted for Drug Distribution “The Healthcare Distribution Management Association, a nonprofit organization for distributors, recommended that distributors of pharmaceutical drugs and other healthcare products begin putting RFID tags carrying Electronic Product Codes (EPC) on cases beginning in 2005 and deploy related infrastructure needed to take advantage of those tags.”

Zebra Technologies Welcomes FDA Stand on High-Tech Weapons to Combat Counterfeit Drugs The FDA’s “Counterfeit Drugs Questions and Answers” reports that 10% of the international drug supply is counterfeit with rates as high as 50% in some nations. While the FDA believes the US drug supply is safe, it is working proactively to develop countermeasures […]

INDUSTRYWEEK’S BEST PLANTS “All of this bodes well for the U.S. launch of the drug-eluting stent. Still, pharmaceuticals are unfamiliar ground. To fulfill strict traceability requirements, rather than having two people doing the job of one, each signing off on the other’s work as is frequently done in pharmaceuticals, Maple Grove will track each stent […]

Yahoo! News – Radio Rx “The Red Cross is planning to run a pilot test using RFID to track blood packets, and several drugmakers are experimenting with RFID in distribution and packaging centers. Pharmacy chains, hospitals and HMOs hope to use the technology on boxes of drugs to aid in recalls. And once the chips […]

SAMSys Technologies Inc. (SMY:TSX-VEN) (“SAMSys”), a world leading provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) hardware solutions, today announced it has signed a value-added reseller (VAR) agreement with RFID total solutions provider VerdaSee Solutions Inc. (“VerdaSee”). Under this agreement, VerdaSee will incorporate SAMSys’ readers into their logistics application solutions for the supply chain as well as […]