FDA Releases RFID Guidelines, OxyContin to Begin Tagging
“Food and Drug Administration officials released new policy guidelines today designed to stimulate the use of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for prescription drugs, and Purdu Pharma officials said they will start using the technology this week on shipments to two large customers of the company’s OxyContin narcotic pain treatment drug.
FDA officials recommended in February that the pharmaceutical industry should adopt the technology by the start of 2007 to help combat the proliferation of counterfeit drugs. They added that they believe RFID will also eventually produce significant savings to the drug industry through supply-chain efficiency improvements.”
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