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Indian Conglomerate ITC Focuses on RFID Expansion The company's item-level RFID deployment is already yielding some significant benefits at two distribution centers and eight of its Willis Lifestyle stores.

To Satisfy RFID Mandates, Normerica Uses Boxes With Embedded Tags The boxes have EPC Gen 2 tags imbedded in their seams to simplify the process the company employs to ship cat litter to Wal-Mart Canada.

At Mayo Clinic, RFID Slashes Error Rate A study showed that after the organization's endoscopy unit began using passive 13.56 MHz tags to identify specimen bottles, the rate of labeling errors dropped by 94 percent.

Dutch Forensic Institute Uses RFID to Control Crime Evidence The agency is employing EPC Gen 2 tags to document an item's chain of custody and trigger an alarm if evidence goes awry.

Wal-Mart, DOD Point to Sustained Progress Leaders of the two flagship EPC users say they are not backing off their respective RFID efforts, and that both organizations have made "sustained progress."

Kovio Unveils Printed-Silicon HF RFID, Chip Tag The low-cost chip complies with the ISO 14443A standard and can contain 128 bits of factory-encoded data; commercial products should be available in 2009.

DOD Needs to Enforce Its Own RFID Mandate, Says Inspector General Many suppliers and contracting officers are failing to comply with the U.S. Defense Department's directive for applying passive RFID tags to certain shipments, according to a recent investigation by the DOD's inspector general.

PUF Technology Catches Clones Startup company Verayo is marketing a passive 13.56 MHz RFID chip that prevents cloning by enabling users to verify its authenticity before selling a product to which it's attached.

Outdoor Clothing and Equipment Retailer Tests RFID-EAS Tags At one of Northland's stores in Graz, Austria, items are fitted with EPC Gen 2 tags that allow the company not only to manage its inventory but also to know if goods are leaving the store without being purchased.

Researchers Work on Using RFID to Calculate an Item's Carbon Footprint The Bits to Energy Lab has developed a prototype system utilizing data collected via RFID to calculate an individual item's carbon footprint and display it on an RFID-enabled mobile phone.