A Small Piece of RFID History

A Small Piece of RFID History

A project leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which developed one of the first RFID systems for the U.S. Department of Agriculture back in the early 1970s, clarifies a frequency issue.

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.

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.

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.