![]() It's no longer just the printing of a serial number,” he said. There's a lot of other information that you can get from it. “What's amazing to me is it's not only identification, it's verification. SpotSee’s president and CEO Tony Fonk agreed that while the label has historically been a bit of an afterthought, it's now becoming the “center of everything” as a result of track-and-trace requirements and new technologies coming online. “It's very important to identify all of that upfront, because that's the trunk of the tree that holds all of this other great technology,” she said. Lori Bitar, market development manager, medical device and pharma at FLEXcon (global manufacturer of pressure-sensitive film products) has discussed the important issue of label failure with a colleague, particularly with regulations and changes in materials and container types. These kinds of things are what we, as an industry, need to continue to keep at the forefront, and to improve upon as we move forward.” “You have marketing get involved with some of the packaging labels-and they're really innovative with special colors of pink and light sienna and other colors-and we've seen packages that have been serialized early on that their labels are starting to fade and we just can't read them anymore. He said there have been conversations about what happens when this label falls off, and not only will this prevent them from moving product, but they’ve even had instances where the color fades. That's the next thing that we're going to need to pay attention to as an industry.” That product needs to be quarantined, researched, and looked at. He said, “But going forward, if we're not able to read those serial numbers and the information on the case, there's a disruption. )Ĭurrently, if they’re not able to read those labels, they can place an internal label on the package to move that package through the supply chain. (The full panel video, including discussion of auto ID technology will be available for viewing soon here. “As the cases or pallets of cases move through the supply chain, each one of those case labels is just as significant as the label that's printed on the unit of use bottles,” he said. 12 to 14, 2022)Īs Brian Schmidt, p rincipal IT generalist at McKesson, explained, pharma manufacturers spend a lot of time making sure that the unit of use bottles are good-looking and durable last to test the time to avoid disruptions, but they often pay little attention to the case labels. Read this story on HDA's Traceability Seminar in Washington D.C. ![]() [ Editor's note: some responses were edited for brevity. 2023, many are focused on “what’s digital”-interoperable systems, data storage, formatting, and sharing.īut experts reminded attendees at the recent AIM Virtual Summit panel on a uto ID technologies and supply chain traceability not to overlook something more tangible: the case label itself. While the pharmaceutical packaging community scrambles to comply in the home stretch of DSCSA regulations coming into force in Nov.
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