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FDA Aligns with GS1 SGTIN For SNDC

Last Friday, the FDA published the long awaited guidance on their Standardized Numeric Identifier (SNI) for prescription drug packages.  This was right on time since the FDA Amendments Act  of 2007 gave the agency 30 months to develop a standard for SNI and they published, almost to the day, 30 months later.  Well done.

The published guidance is not radically different from the draft guidance that the agency published under the same name in January of 2009.  In fact, in my view, the only really important difference is how the Read the rest of this entry »

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Dirk Rodgers

Dirk is currently a Sr. Consultant in IT working within the U.S. Pharmaceutical Supply Chain. He is currently co-chair of several technical work groups in GS1 and GS1 US. He was a co-chair of the original GS1 EPCglobal Drug Pedigree Messaging work group that created the DPMS pedigree standard. Dirk holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.