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New Law Serves as Warning to RFID Industry
The US Senate last week passed FDA legislation that included a provision of interest to the RFID industry. The provision mandates that internet-based pharmacies include visual anti-counterfeiting technology on all pharmaceuticals sold to US customers. The provision specifically technology like RFID or barcodes.
China Approves Requirements for UHF Bandwidth
The sanctioned spectrum should be compatible with UHF RFID frequencies used in many other parts of the world, including the United States and Europe.
RFID Makes Ordering and Paying for Pizza Easy As Pie
A Florida pizzeria is using RFID so customers can pay for their pies at a self-service kiosk, and the restaurant can keep better tabs on orders.
Cardinal Health to Outfit California DC with RFID
Cardinal Health recently announced that it will outfit its Sacramento, California, pharmaceutical distribution center with RFID technology by fall of this year. It is a move to prepare the company for California’s legislation that will require the tracking and tracing of drugs distributed in the state.
Emory Healthcare Tracks Its Pumps
Georgia’s largest health-care system is using active RFID tags to track the status and location of 2,400 infusion pumps, on and off the premises.
GE Sensing, Dust Networks to Develop Wireless Sensors
The first GE Sensing product is the RF ValProbe, designed to help pharmaceutical and life sciences companies monitor and validate environments—such as freezers and sterilization processes—for regulatory and quality compliance purposes.
SAP’s RFID Focus for 2007: Object Event Repository Software
The company plans to bring the database software to market this month and help its partners develop related applications.
SAP Aims to Support Innovation in European RFID Market
At its Sapphire conference this week, the company spelled out its strategy to develop software for systems using radio frequency identification.
RFID Takes Root in Italy
During a recent visit to Bologna, I got to see first-hand how RFID is taking root in Italy, with the assistance of the University of Parma’s RFID Lab.