Posted on November 11, 2009 by Christopher Little
Dana Flavelle, writing for the Toronto Star has brought mainstream media attention to GS1 Canada’s roll out of a solution that lets consumers learn of product recalls at the store checkout. The story carries the headline, “Product recalls soon to be listed at checkout.”
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by sterling1
One of the big worries about the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, which will mandate that food be traceable, has been that while large fresh produce organizations should find it relatively easy and affordable to implement and use, small growers will find compliance and the economics of it overwhelming.
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Posted on October 19, 2009 by Christopher Little
“The Upside of a Unique Device Identification (UDI) Mandate” is the topic of an online keynote speech that will be given by Jay Crowley, senior advisor for patient safety, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 2 as part of the Track & Trace Virtual Trade Show.
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Posted on October 8, 2009 by sterling1
The newly announced GS1 Canada Product Recall service has been mentioned here previously, but not to the comprehensive depth you’ll find in this report by Steve Banker writing for Logistics Viewpoints. He provides answers to these following questions: Who are the players? What are the benefits? Hoes does this work? What does it cost?
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Posted on October 6, 2009 by Christopher Little
The Associated Press put out a story today that’s getting a lot of traction and that’s good because this report, entitled “US has no good system to track medical implants” is bound to get a lot of average people interested very quickly in what needs to happen. It also might get a lot of the [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2009 by Christopher Little
Big news: In an email today from John Roberts, Director, GS1 Healthcare US, we’re being informed that at a recent seminar in China conducted by AdvaMed, which is a major association of advanced medical technology producers, officials representing the China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) said they plan to follow the
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Posted on August 27, 2009 by Christopher Little
One of the questions some people have these days when it comes to GS1 — and the lists of attributes you can pull from the GDSN on anything that is GS1 coded — is, “What in the world are we going to do with all the additional data we’re able to get?” Answers to that [...]
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Posted on August 20, 2009 by sterling1
You may see this at first as just a local US story
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Posted on August 6, 2009 by Christopher Little
Okay, we continue to see bad actors in the supply chain and they continue to be . . .
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Posted on August 4, 2009 by sterling1
File this under, ‘It’s about time!” The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that will require more food safety measures. It will give more power to the FDA in demanding recalls and creating a better product tracing
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Posted on July 22, 2009 by sterling1
We’ve covered this topic earlier but today’s news is that pilot organizers and participants have published their findings, recommendations and conclusions in the project’s Evaluation Report. The news release about this is here. A link to the complete recommendations document is here. The bottom line is: The project team found that full supply chain traceability systems [...]
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Posted on July 12, 2009 by Christopher Little
Many return on investment calculations are easy. Most are not in my experience and you end up in the world of “soft” dollars (i.e., dollars you can’t actually put in the bank).
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Posted on July 11, 2009 by Christopher Little
Henry Ford Hospital employs more than 21,500 medical, administrative, and support staff. It has 3 million patient visits and performs nearly 50,000 surgeries . . . and does nearly 6.8 million lab tests. Each year.
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Posted on July 10, 2009 by sterling1
Posted on July 7, 2009 by Christopher Little
New food safety standards set by a panel established by President Barack Obama will be implemented by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Agriculture Department working together. This news comes from this Associated Press (AP) report by Mary Clare Jalonick.
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Posted on June 27, 2009 by sterling1
Here’s an unusual, but very timely, application of GS1 standards:
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Posted on June 25, 2009 by sterling1
Conceptually, it is hard to argue against a global product marking standard understood by all. But when it comes down to the level of practical implementation, there can be significant implications. In this posting by Tom Karst on The Packer site, an anonymous retailer’s comments about GTIN adoption raise some serious concerns.
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Posted on June 18, 2009 by sterling1
If and when you first read this InfoWorld aticle by Carol Ko entitled ‘HK launches measures against counterfeit products,’ you may ask
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Posted on June 17, 2009 by sterling1
This just in… This IBM press release out of Armonk, NY, this morning confirms that GS1 UK has engaged IBM to help find and fix supply chain data gaps
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Posted on June 15, 2009 by Christopher Little
Writing for Modern Medicine, contributing editor Christine Blank filed a story late last week carrying the headline, “Pharma industry expands electronic tracking of drugs.”
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