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		<title>New York medical center to implement GS1 standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A prominent medical center in New York's Hudson Valley announced it will adopt GS1 standards in its supply chain process through a data synchronization effort that will make use of the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN).  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=8973&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Restaurant group to study supply chain, traceability issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One trade group says it would now like to study supply chain processes and measures to determine best practices moving forward.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=8964&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GS1 U.S. announces details on 2012 conference</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/gs1-u-s-announces-details-on-2012-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businesses that adhere to GS1 standards for label tracking and traceability and supply chain efficiency can get the latest on the organization's latest standards, updates and regulations at the 2012 GS1 Connect Conference, which was announced November 16.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=8934&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GS1 Healthcare US Showcases Healthcare Supplier&#8217;s Implementation of Global Location Numbers</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/gs1-healthcare-us-showcases-healthcare-suppliers-implementation-of-global-location-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent six-page case study, GS1 Healthcare US spotlights how and why the STERIS Corporation has made the move to GS1-based data and product marking standards. In case you&#8217;re not familiar with STERIS, it is a leading provider of infection prevention and surgical products with more than 5,000 employees worldwide. The story is an interesting one, if not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5481&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association Endorses GS1</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/voluntary-interindustry-commerce-solutions-association-endorses-gs1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svigneault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not a surprise that the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions Association (VICS) has endorsed GS1 standards. The story about it, courtesy of Apparel, notes that the organization had previously endorsed the use of GS1 keys, barcode data capture standards and other GS1 technical standards, including VICS EDI. This latest reaffirmation, however, is expected to advance the Association&#8217;s VICS Item Level RFID [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5586&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare, aerospace sector to benefit from new GS1 EPC standards</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/healthcare-aerospace-sector-to-benefit-from-new-gs1-epc-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:59:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svigneault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GS1, the nonprofit standards organization, announced Friday that it has ratified two new Electronic Product Code (EPC) standards, which offer additional capabilities to users tagging items with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5771&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GS1, Global Healthcare Collaboration, and Electronic Medical Records</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/gs1-global-healthcare-collaboration-and-electronic-medical-records-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 08:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sterling1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent news release, this coming September, 2011, in London, a prestigious group of healthcare professionals and Roger Lamb, healthcare sector manager at GS1 UK, are convening an event to address the concerns and challenges of the European healthcare market. The event is being organized by Healthcare IQ, a division of International Quality &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5479&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chemical Industry: Future of Worldwide Harmonization Hinges on Getting MAD!</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/chemical-industry-future-of-worldwide-harmonization-hinges-on-getting-mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svigneault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A timely article in Express Pharma entitled, &#8220;Enhancing REACHability,&#8221; provides a thorough accounting of the events and themes of the recently held third Helsinki Chemicals Forum which discussed current issues and future challenges of the chemical industry, chemical safety, and chemistry research. It is mostly about the ongoing evolution of REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5482&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Traceability is the Buzzword, But it is Really About a Global Marking Standard and Who&#8217;s in Charge</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/commentary-traceability-is-the-buzzword-but-it-is-really-about-a-global-marking-standard-and-whos-in-charge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 08:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svigneault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a shocker: traceability isn&#8217;t really a new idea. In the fresh produce industry, for example, traceability has been happening in the United States pretty much across the board for over 80 years. So what is new? Why now is there so much talk about traceability? The big breakthrough is actually based on a very simple, new-ish idea. While the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5483&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting Customers&#8217; Needs for Chemical Data</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/28/meeting-customers-needs-for-chemical-data/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline on this post comes from the name of a newly minted report of 50+ pages developed by the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council. They&#8217;re a project of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. There are several really important features of this report. Most immediately it becomes quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5478&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At long last, from &#8216;Farm to Fork&#8217;&#8230; almost&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/at-long-last-from-farm-to-fork-almost-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U. S. Foodservice&#8230; you know them, they distribute more than 43,000 national, private label and signature brand items and an array of services to more than 250,000 customers&#8230; came out pretty strong recently to welcome federal passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act. In particular, Jorge Hernandez, senior vice president of food safety and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5558&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GS1, Global Healthcare Collaboration, and Electronic Medical Records</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/23/gs1-global-healthcare-collaboration-and-electronic-medical-records/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:49:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month, in London, a prestigious group of healthcare professionals and Roger Lamb, healthcare sector manager at GS1 UK, convened to address the concerns and challenges of the European healthcare market. The event was organized by Healthcare IQ, a division of International Quality &#38; Productivity Center (IQPC). A spokesperson from that organization summed up the chief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5287&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s 10th Largest Drug Market Pushes for GS1 Serialization by 2011</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/worlds-10th-largest-drug-market-pushes-for-gs1-serialization-by-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Phil Taylor, writing for SecuringPharma, Brazil&#8217;s 191 million inhabitants represent the biggest pharmaceutical market in South America, valued at around $17bn in 2008. He notes it is the tenth largest drug market in the world. Soon, the country plans to implement a drug serialization mandate that will affect you if your company sells pharmaceuticals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5474&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Device Barcode and RFID Tips that can Streamline Joint Commission Visits</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/medical-device-barcode-and-rfid-tips-that-can-streamline-joint-commission-visits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, MD Publishing posted an excellent article entitled, &#8216;Cover Story: Strategies For Success,&#8217; which is all about the ways in which clinical engineering professionals can and should  track and manage medical devices and why this is important. The article not only spotlights the requirements of The Joint Commission, which accredits and certifies more than 18,000 health care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5477&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Track and Trace is a Thing of Beauty in Cosmetics, Too!</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/track-and-trace-is-a-thing-of-beauty-in-cosmetics-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Counterfeiting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a rather breathless news release about a new industrial printing solution. That&#8217;s OK. I write a lot of somewhat over-the-top stuff, too. Happily, my boss usually tones it down. But of importance to me in this news release was a mention of the cosmetics industry&#8217;s problem with counterfeit products and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5476&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American Pharmacists Association Expresses Concern Over Track and Trace Implementation Implications</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/american-pharmacists-association-expresses-concern-over-track-and-trace-implementation-implications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pharmaceutical expert told me once, and I have confirmed this many times since from other sources, that quite often a drug recall will see the return of more product than was originally manufactured in the first place. That&#8217;s how porous the system is to counterfeiters and how vulnerable people are to fake drugs. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5456&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Services Industry: GS1 Leads Initiative for Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI)</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/financial-services-industry-gs1-leads-initiative-for-legal-entity-identifiers-lei/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svigneault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Forbes starts writing about product marking technology, it&#8217;s a sign that the topic is going mainstream.  That&#8217;s my take, at least, on a recent report by Tom Groenfeldt who writes in general about financial technology for the publication. His recent piece, entitled, &#8220;Lehman, Lithium and Lettuce — The Need for Unique Identifiers in Finance,&#8221; is all about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5584&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GS1 Belgium Completes 3-Year Trial of RFID-driven Drug Track and Trace</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/gs1-belgium-completes-3-year-trial-of-rfid-driven-drug-track-and-trace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This latest update about a three-year GS1 pilot to test end-to-end supply chain product tracking shows that people are thinking about the right kinds of problems. But still missing from much of the analysis of RFID- and GPS-based solutions is the cost analysis part of the equation. It doesn&#8217;t seem to me we need another test [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5473&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AMA Expresses Concern Over Track and Trace Implementation Implications</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/american-pharmacists-association-expresses-concern-over-track-and-trace-implementation-implications-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svigneault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pharmaceutical expert told me once, and I have confirmed this many times since from other sources, that quite often a drug recall will see the return of more product than was originally manufactured in the first place. That&#8217;s how porous the system is to counterfeiters and how vulnerable people are to fake drugs. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5588&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: The Inevitability of Global, Standards-Driven Track and Trace</title>
		<link>http://loftware.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/commentary-the-inevitability-of-global-standards-driven-track-and-trace-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>svigneault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uncertainty seems to be the natural default position for many of us when contemplating the possibilities or probabilities of new things, including emerging technologies. Will they or won&#8217;t they catch on? Is everyone really going to adapt to it? This kind of thinking puts decisions into neutral which is sometimes a good thing. Why? Because [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=loftware.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2013001&amp;post=5580&amp;subd=loftware&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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