Radio Frequency Identification Technology for Logistics, Tagging and EPC

Watching the Bar Code

Friday, October 1, 2004

In February of 2004 the FDA issued a regulation requiring barcodes on prescription drug and biological products. The agency hopes to reduce 500,000 medical errors in the next twenty years. Following a number of extraordinarily successful pilots, the electronic medical record and bar coded drug labels lay the foundation for a number of automatic ID products to enter the health care industry.

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