RFID tagging on an item-level for pharmaceuticals is 100 percent reliable, according to packager Owens-Illinois (O-I) and RFID company Impinj.

Two demonstrations were conducted at the RFID Health Care Industry Adoption Summit in Washington, using a near-field ultrahigh frequency (UHF) Gen 2 RFID solution consisting of readers and chips from Impinj and item-level embedded RFID tags from I-O, according to news reports.