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Editor's Note: Today's top story is the FDA's release of a report making recommendations to the pharmaceutical industry with respect to the adoption of RFID.
Sci-Tech Today reports that China's Ministry of Science and Technology today announced that it will set national RFID standards. A ministry official was quoted as saying "We need to consider other major technical standards in some developed countries," but asserted that China will not yield to outside pressures.
TAGSYS today announced a WiFi handheld RFID reader for library environments. Recall that the item-level specialist recently moved its headquarters to the US and landed $35 million in funding (see Item-Level RFID Firm TAGSYS Lands $35m).
The British Nuclear Group is using the solution from Cambridge-based real-time locating system (RTLS) provider Ubisense to track and locate employees in real time. The Ubisense solution is integrated with a map that reflects radiation levels and the location of each worker, and it is expected to increase employee safety and efficiency. Details are here. |
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FDA Announces Pharma RFID Recommendations
The US Food and Drug Administration today released a highly anticipated report with recommendations for combating the counterfeit of pharmaceuticals. Following are the need-to-know points:- The FDA did not actually mandate the use of RFID but did reinforce its belief in the technology as a key element in the fight against counterfeiting. The agency wants to see the pharma supply chain stakeholders "continue to work expeditiously" toward the realization of electronic pedigrees.
- In 2004, the FDA had expected that RFID adoption in the pharmaceutical supply chain would be widespread by 2007. The report reiterates what the FDA has said publicly in recent months: its 2007 prediction was aggressive, and it does not expect to see widespread adoption next year.
- All of the pedigree regulations outlined in the Prescription Drug Marketing Act of 1987 will be implemented. (Note: these regulations refer to paper pedigree, not RFID-enabled electronic pedigree.) Some of the regulations had been placed on hold because of their burden on smaller wholesalers and the FDA's expectation that RFID e-pedigree would have been widely adopted by 2007. But because the small wholesaler concerns have subsided, and e-pedigree will probably not meet the FDA's hoped-for schedule, the agency is effectively lifting the regulation hold by not extending it upon expiration in December. Enforcement of the regulations will initially apply to those drugs most susceptible to counterfeiting.
- Four aspects of RFID adoption are cited as needing further development: the technical complexities of mass serializiation; the realization of a national pedigree regulation instead of a fractured group of regulations coming from individual states; privacy protections; and consumer education about RFID including full disclosure when purchased drugs contain RFID tags.
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