Track & Trace

Golden State Medical Supply has recalled bottles of Atenolol, a blood pressure medication, and Clopidogrel, a medication aimed at heart issues after the manufacturer discovered that labels had been switched on some of the bottles.

Now you will soon be able to check if the medicine you are popping is safe, and not spurious. The government plans to launch a `track and trace’ mechanism for top-selling medicines to prevent the sale of counterfeit and sub-standard medicines, and ensure quality, sources told TOI.

Patients who suddenly stop taking atenolol, as would happen if clopidogrel were misplaced in the atenolol-labeled bottle, are at increased risk for ischemic (angina, myocardial infarction), hypertensive and arrhythmic adverse events relating to rapid withdrawal of beta antagonism. Further, patients who are on atenolol are frequently on concomitant anticoagulant and antiplatelet medications and would be at increased risk for bleeding if clopidogrel were added to the regimen.

The administration of an intravenous product containing particulates has the potential to result in inflammation, allergic reactions, or circulatory system complications which could be life-threatening. To date, Eugia US LLC has not received reports of any adverse events or identifiable safety concerns attributed to the product consumed for this lot.

The pharmaceutical sector has long been viewed as the industry most closely associated with serialization technology. The ability to trace a medicine or drug across the entire supply chain, from its point of origin to the pharmacy shelf, provides essential reassurance that it is genuine and will not cause harm — the perfect antidote to counterfeit drugs. However, serialization track-and-trace technology is now making substantial inroads into other sectors.

Through an automatic update on the Transporeon platform, every Transporeon customer will now have access to functionality that can transparently and efficiently measure, reduce, report and benchmark the greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from their transports. This value-added service is provided as an integral part of all transports executed and processed via Transporeon and is accessible to all customers on our platform.

The lack of end-to-end traceability and visibility of the supply chain brings a string of problems. Key to this is network capital locked up in supply chains. How do you optimize that? Then obviously making sure pharma products are stored in the proper conditions and handled in the right way, otherwise this can result in a significant loss of quality with a huge impact on patient safety. We have already seen this with the vaccines, how not storing them at the right temperature causes issues.

All told, pharmaceutical supply chains have proven remarkably resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to regulatory flexibility, increased government cooperation and some good old-fashioned industry elbow grease, biopharma has largely avoided disruptions like those plaguing the semiconductor-starved consumer electronics sector.

In the next few years, the global pharmaceutical industry will be driven by safety concerns and the ability of products to fit in the loop of connectivity and communication. Smart labels, QR scanning, brand protection, and identification are some of the aspects that indicate that smart packaging industry needs to evolve constantly to serve all product-shipping business verticals

More self-administered healthcare requires innovative packages that are tailored for patients in a design-centric and sustainable approach.

Pharmaceutical packaging boxes are used to package different kinds of products. These products are classified into several types, including primary packaging, Cool boxes, and Ampoule packs. Custom pharmaceutical packaging boxes are available to meet the specific needs of these products. We also provide the custom printing of pharmaceutical boxes to meet customer requirements. The custom packaging helps your customers understand your products better and enhances the customer service experience. This helps increase sales.

Current serialization solutions in the Pharmaceutical Industry can be up to 20 years old. While pharmaceutical traceability solutions have matured considerably, systems remain proprietary and difficult to interface with. Today's announcement directly addresses this shortcoming.

Varcode, developer of digital collection, recording, tracing, and reporting solutions for supply chain compliance and monitoring, today announced it has finalized a strategic partnership agreement with National Packaging Group (NPG), a domestic manufacturer of corrugated packaging products, to develop, manufacture, market, and distribute technologically advanced, SMART packaging solutions for distributing temperature sensitive products.

Remember, covid? If so, you may recall that the mRNA vaccines need to remain ridiculously cold until just before they are ready to be used. Well, there’s a whole business platform built around temperature-controlled logistics for not just processing, storing, and transporting vaccines, but for all of the biological bits and bobs that life science companies, research institutes, universities, and your occasional evil genius develop. In this case, we’re going to zero in on two companies that are probably the biggest pure plays in cold chain logistics for cell and gene therapies – Cryoport (CYRX) and BioLife Solutions (BLFS).

Pharma track and trace, The supply chain in pharmaceuticals is filled with so many obstacles such as an unoptimized supply cycle, overstocking, understocking, lack of communication, labor shortages, climate issues, and viruses and lockdowns. The primary issue is the lack of transparency during different stages of the supply chain cycle. These problems affect the efficiency of the supply chain cycle. To overcome these issues, we have some strategies for you:

True Pedigree, a technology company helping brands protect themselves from losing revenue due to counterfeit and grey market products, has launched GenuScan, which it claims is a ‘powerful’ new platform that lets users determine the provenance, destination, and legitimacy of products by scanning them via a smartphone.

Pharmaceutics labels need to provide a lot of information. To get started, here are some tips to help you decide what to put on your labels. You should know how much information is needed, as well as what challenges you might face. And, of course, you should always consider the cost. Read on to learn how to make the most of pharmaceutical label printing. Listed below are some common challenges, and how to overcome them. And don’t forget to check out our other articles to learn more about label printing.

Solutions that help to extend shelf life, reduce food waste and protect contents have environmental as well as cost-saving implications. We continue to track many new initiatives in this area.

Antares Vision Group, a supplier of track & trace systems and quality control solutions providing product and supply chain transparency through integrated data management, and Edgyn (formerly Arjo Solutions), a brand protection provider that created the patented ADFIRMIA digital fingerprinting technology, have formed a strategic alliance to deliver a sophisticated, comprehensive authentication technology.

Errors in pharmaceutical emballage, labeling, and product descriptions are still regular occurrences that cause detrimental consequences from consumers’ well-being to the integrity of the products and company. In fact, it’s estimated that 50 percent of all pharmaceutical recalls are related to errors in labeling or packing artwork. What’s more, they are much more frequent than one would imagine, as clinically important drug recalls occur approximately once per month in the United States. For perspective on just how significant these financial impacts can be, Johnson and Johnson lost roughly $600 million in sales after closing a distribution site due to a recall. Another infamous recall occurred in 2012 when Pfizer recalled approximately 1 million packs of birth control pills due to incorrect packaging.

Track &Trace in the pharmaceuticals industry is now seen as a global mandate. However, some of the laws may differ from one country to another. This is why most pharma companies are looking to improve their product traceability in the supply chain to remain in compliance. Also, serialization is now proven more effective with no errors and drug theft than other solutions such as sturdy packaging and traceable 3D hologram models.

Serialization plays an essential role in helping manufacturers maintain supply chain integrity, discourage counterfeiting, and meet regulatory requirements. It allows manufacturers to keep track of their products by assigning and attaching a unique serial number to each product, printed on a label and affixed to the product. Serialization enables visibility of the product’s lifecycle as it moves throughout the supply chain – starting with manufacturers, all the way down to the consumer level. Serialization requires printing and aggregation on the packaging line. The goal is to easily identify every product, at the item level, by a unique serial number that pinpoints the product’s origin, expiration, and batch number, thus enabling traceability.

A lack of traceability in the drug supply chain is a barrier to progress in all of these areas, but the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is working to change that through the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). The DSCSA, which takes full effect in November 2023, should usher in a new era of supply chain resilience for the US pharmaceutical industry, but compliance is not without its challenges.