The pharmaceutical markets that currently have a serialization and/or tracing regulation on the books include the United States, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Italy, Turkey, South Korea, Argentina, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Not all are fully operational yet, but they are official. This list may be about to grow by two. Continue reading The Next Markets To Impose Pharma Serialization and Tracing?
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Aggregation –> Chargeback Accuracy –> ROI
Last week I attended my favorite annual conference on pharma serialization and tracing in the U.S.: The Healthcare Distribution Management Association’s (HDMA) Traceability Seminar. They call it a “seminar” because the subject of the sessions are generally the same every year, but it is better than any other third-party conference, primarily because the right people attend it: lots of people from drug manufacturers, wholesale distributors and some dispensers. With this ideal spectrum of attendees, it is very easy to get your questions answered, in the hallway between sessions if not in the sessions themselves.
Of course, every year the folks from the FDA who are directly responsible for writing regulations related to the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) provide Continue reading Aggregation –> Chargeback Accuracy –> ROI
Brazil Suspends Pharma Serialization And Tracing Requirements
Last week, Brazil’s pharma industry regulatory agency, the National Agency of Sanitary Surveillance (ANVISA), announced that they were “suspending” at least part of RDC-54/2013, the declaration that mandated drug serialization and tracing, until further notice. Thank you to all who forwarded the link to the official announcement. I was able to translate and read it on Thursday, and I submitted a comment on my own last essay, “Pharma Serialization Deadlines In Flux“, to include the link. Apparently shortly after that essay was published, ANVISA Continue reading Brazil Suspends Pharma Serialization And Tracing Requirements
