Food and Drug Administration officials released new policy guidelines last week designed to stimulate the use of passive radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for prescription drugs. Purdu Pharma ...

The Food and Drug Administration Monday announced an initiative to encourage the use of RFID by drug companies. Phillips Industries’ new Cincinnati-area distribution center is now shipping aftermarket ...

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) report, Combating Counterfeit Drugs, published this week recommends the “adoption and common use of reliable track and trace technology,” later referred to as RFID ...

State mandates, FDA recommendations and growing losses due to counterfeiting and expired drugs are driving the pharmaceutical supply chain toward radio frequency identification, according to a new ...

Drug wholesaler Cencora is tagging the injectable anesthesia it sends to hospitals so that the products can be automatically managed with the Intelliguard RFID solution, as they are received and used.

Today’s medication supply chain relies heavily on barcodes for tracking and authentication, and these are applied not only at the unit of sale — such as a box of medications — but also at the ...