Pharmaceutical manufacturers should be aware that there is a lot of uninformed misinformation going around out there lately about the need for them to supply aggregation data to their trading partners to meet the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) (for more on aggregation, see “Pharma Aggregation: How Companies Are Achieving Perfection Today”, “DQSA: Will … Continue reading The Aggregation Hoax and PIA
About 3 years ago I published an essay called “U.S. Pharma Supply Chain Complexity” where I attempted to provide a more realistic understanding of the U.S. pharma supply chain than the typical supply chain drawing offers. That essay was aimed at helping the industry select an approach to meeting U.S. state pedigree laws, which are … Continue reading U.S. Pharma Supply Chain Complexity–Revisited
GS1 just updated their website with the newly updated versions of their Electronic Product Code Information Services (EPCIS) and Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) which were ratified by the GS1 Board on Monday. Both carry the new version number “1.1”. The two standards are separate but intertwined because the core business vocabulary is used within the various … Continue reading GS1 Ratifies Updated Versions of EPCIS and CBV
There is a lot of angst in the pharma community right now about the fast approaching DSCSA first deadline for the exchange of transaction data, but the medical device community is dealing with an even earlier deadline: the September 24, 2014 deadline for UDI on class III medical devices. The FDA UDI web page lists … Continue reading UDI Deadline For Class III Medical Devices Quickly Approaching
This is the second of a five part interview with Ken Traub, GS1 standards expert and independent consultant, on GS1 serial number randomization. The full series includes essays covering: GS1 Serial Number Considerations Properties of Randomization (this essay) Threat Analysis Algorithmic Approach Other Approaches to Randomization This week Ken introduces three properties of randomization. — Dirk.
Ever since the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) was signed into law last November (see “It’s Official, President Obama Signs H.R. 3204, DQSA, Into Law”), more and more people are asking the question, “Does my drug have to follow the DQSA?”. Recently I was on a monthly industry call put on by one of … Continue reading Is Your Drug Exempt From The Federal Drug Supply Chain Security Act?
Even before the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) was passed last November I began to study Title II, the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). But as soon as it was passed, I began to devote all of my spare time to that study. The DSCSA text is much more complicated than any previous … Continue reading The Drug Supply Chain Security Act Explained
Let’s take a brief pause from our in-the-moment work on meeting today’s healthcare supply chain security needs and consider what the supply chain will look like in the future. Because of regulations and laws enacted in 2012 and 2013 in the U.S., and expected in 2014 in the E.U., we know more today about how … Continue reading The Future of Healthcare Supply Chain Security
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