Turkish Pharmaceutical Company Selects rfxcel For FMD Compliance
Abdi Ibrahim, the Turkish pharmaceutical company, has selected rfxcel to implement and support new compliance management and serialization processing software to ensure full compliance with current and future international legislative requirements ahead of the 2019 EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) deadline. Abdi Ibrahim, founded in 1912, operates in 10 countries outside of Turkey. Today, Abdi Ibrahim’s…
Outsourcing Expands For Pharmaceutical Labeling
In a market as complex as the pharmaceutical industry, entry not only requires high initial capital investment but adherence to stringent regulatory controls. In particular, traceability legislation established to stem the threats of counterfeit and gray market drugs are a present market effector, driving rapid growth in the labeling, coding, and decorating machinery market. Traditionally,…
An Inside Look At The Adents Serialization Innovation Summit
As the November 2018 deadline for the next phase for the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) compliance approaches, many still find themselves facing significant hurdles when it comes to serialization. The Adents Serialization Innovation Summit in Philadelphia brought together industry experts to share the new technologies that are empowering life science companies to improve…
Serial Drama: Seven Steps To Avoid Falling Foul Of The Falsified Medicines Directive
Pharma manufacturers are currently the main actors in a serial drama where getting their lines right is paramount. To be precise, four lines of data in (and next to) DataMatrix barcodes applied to every pack of prescription medicines. The introduction of serialization, designed to ensure the authenticity and traceability of individual medicines, promises to improve…
Enhanced Support Serves To Optimize Serialized Manufacturing
When pharmaceutical manufacturing lines are underperforming, the problem is rarely straightforward and the issue often goes beyond serialization software. That’s why Vantage Consulting Group announced from the 2018 HDA Distribution Management Conference (DMC) and Expo, Vantage Enhanced Support Services, a vendor-agnostic program for troubleshooting, maintaining and optimizing serialized production lines. Such lines are common in pharmaceuticals, food and other…
Serialization Efforts Help Boost TraceLink Pharma And CMO Customer Count
TraceLink’s serialization customer count approached 400 in 2017. TraceLink Inc. announced that as of the end of 2017, 394 pharmaceutical and contract manufacturing customers have selected the company’s serialization options to comply with regulations in the U.S., Europe, China, India, and South Korea. The company said it added 75 new pharmaceutical and contract manufacturing (CMO) customers in Q4 of 2017, with…
Global Pharma Market Increases Need For Track-And-Trace
Manufacturers are instituting protections throughout the supply chain. The counterfeit drug market is growing rapidly, and Deloitte accountants currently value it between $75 billion to $200 billion according to data culled from Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices Trends & Opportunities in Packaging Operations. The research report from PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, also says…
