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Drug
companies, retailers adopting RFID for drugs- November 16,
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Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are the first drugmakers
willing to take the plunge and use radio frequency identification
technology to protect their U.S. drug supply chains from counterfeiters.
On the other end, Walgreens and CVS, the nation's biggest pharmacy
companies, also are involved in testing RFID to see if putting the tiny
electronic devices on pallets, packages and bottles of drugs can track
them accurately through the supply and distribution chain.
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FDA
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), which has been looking carefully at radio frequency
identification (RFID) technology as a way to track and trace drugs from
the point of manufacture to sale, this week announced the creation of a
Compliance Policy Guide for RFID pilots and created a RFID Workgroup to
ease and spread RFID adoption. These initiatives are in service of the
FDA's larger goal of embedding RFID throughout the U.S. pharmaceutical
supply chain by 2007. FDA Encourages
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Canada :
Retailers take RFID reality check
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November 16, 2004 |
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A study on implementation of RFID
(Radio Frequency Identification Devices) revealed that Canadian
retailers plan on deploying the technology, many other are not in the
hurry to do so.
Among the interviewed 30 respondents retail and consumer product
companies, in the Deloitte Canada's 2004 RFID study, half said they will
implement RFID in the next two years, while 29 per cent planned on three
to four years.
The RFID retail revolution will happen in Canada, said Christian
Stephan, a partner in Deloitte Canada's consumer business group, but
that doesn't mean that Canadian retailers really know what they're
getting into.
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- November 16, 2004 |
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Two IT solutions providers have
formed an alliance in order to offer customers with a flexible and
cost-effective method of linking bar coding and Radio Frequency
Identification.
Both Domino Printing Sciences and Omron Electronics believe that the
partnership will provide both suppliers and manufacturers with a
cost-effective means of meeting retailer mandates on both sides of the
Atlantic.
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Celestica
Launches RFID Service
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Many electronics vendors have
unloaded their manufacturing facilities and now outsource production to
services companies, which assemble and fulfill computer and router
orders. It's a job that requires a close watch on supply-chain and
production processes--and some say it's a perfect fit for up-and-coming
radio-frequency identification technology.
Celestica RFID
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RFID's
Security Challenge
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15, 2004 |
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No
one has complained of a security breach related to an RFID
deployment--yet. Businesses and vendors alike acknowledge that security
remains a question mark and that it has taken a backseat to the focus on
bottom-line results and returns on investment for RFID-enabling their
supply chains, for now.
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