Pharmacists’ Professional Society Offers Barcode Problem Reporting Center

If you’re not familiar with the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) — and especially if you are a pharmacist — you may want to check them out.

GS1 Seeking Healthcare Professioinals to Join the Fresh Foods Work Group

The Global Standards Management Process, or GSMP, is the pre-eminent worldwide collaborative forum where GS1 standards are built and maintained.

GS1 Healthcare US Director Featured in Update on Status of Drug Tracking

Writing for Modern Medicine, contributing editor Christine Blank filed a story late last week carrying the headline, “Pharma industry expands electronic tracking of drugs.”  

Fake Product Clues: Barcodes, Certification Marks… and Spelling?

Local broadcast news outlets routinely run stories warning viewers about the dangers of faulty, counterfeit

GS1 UK Pharma Track and Trace Pilot a Sign of Counterfeiting Trends?

Counterfeit drug seizures throughout the European Union (EU) increased 500% in 2005, which is apparently the last year for which there are contemporary figures. This story in PharmTech 

Could Hair-Raising Mistakes at UK Hospitals Spur GS1 Barcode Adoption?

In this news story by Medical Editor Rebecca Smith, writing for The Telegraph in the UK, you can read about the UK’s adoption of a policy that will withhold reimbursement for

GS1 and Pfizer: An Examination of Serialization and Product Integrity

Thanks to Sean A. Murphy, writing for Logistics Management, you can get an insider’s view of the current thinking at Pfizer

Implications of the FDA’s Stephen Sudlof’s Lament

This isn’t a post about the tainted US peanut butter untrustworthy supplier, per se.

Here Comes the Judge: Legal Advocate Slams COO Confusion

Steve Lombardi is an attorney. Writing for a site called InjuryBoard.com – which has a tag line ‘Promoting Safety, Protecting Rights’ — Mr. Lombardi has posted an opinion piece with this title: Product Label Codes: On what grocery store shelf is melamine hiding?

Canada Cool to COOL; Seeks WTO Intervention with U.S.

Just off the wire, courtesy of AgWeb.com: Canada has filed a request with the WTO for consultations with the U.S. over the mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law.

The Importance of Emerging Markets Labeling & GS1 Labeling Solutions

This is a topic to which I will be returning frequently in the coming months: the impact and importance of emerging markets. Global recession or no, the world is flat with respect to supply chains and that means how you think about

Fighting OxyContin Counterfeiting and Diversion with RFID and GS1 Labeling Software

In an email forwarded to me recently, I became aware of a new two-page case study about Purdue Pharma expanding

Musings On GS1 Compliance, Country Of Origin In Barcodes, And Untrustworthy Suppliers

We’ve been fascinated lately by the traffic on this blog to my recent post on country of origin (COO) not being identified by the country franchise code in the GS1 barcode. The post recieves an ever larger number of fresh reads a day

GS1 Barcode Country Designation Not a Certain Identifier of COO…? Oh Oh!

Knowing where a given product was actually made never seemed very important way back when. Who made it, yes. When? Yes. But where exactly? Not so much.
But that all changed when recent events in China revealed some manufacturers’ preference for putting plastic in milk to fake out inspection tests

GS1 Barcodes And Brand Packaging Get With It

If you live together, you’re either cohabitating or married. One pretending that another doesn’t exist in the same house is just delusional or silly. So what’s up with the relationship between bar codes and brand packages?

GS1 Barcode Compliance: Country Origin Code Confusion Continues to Abound

I was passed the URL for this blog with a post entitled, “How To Identify Imported Goods Before Purchasing!!!!” It seems fairly certain of itself:
The first three digits of the barcode that start with either 690, 691, or 692 indicate that the product is made in China. The first three digits of the barcode that [...]