Drug companies prescribed RFID
News The US Food and Drug Administration is urging pharmaceutical companies to adopt radiofrequency identification technology as a means to combat drug counterfeiting. A number of major drug companies are studying how RFID technology, billed as a next...
[February 19, 2004, 11:05]
UK Web site accused over anthrax drug sales
News The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accused a British online pharmaceutical supplier of allegedly selling illegal drugs to the American public in wake of the recent bio-terrorist attacks on the US.
[November 5, 2001, 17:29]
CoSign for 21 CFR Part 11 Compliance
White Papers Company XYZ operates in a regulated environment and is subject to compliance with numerous US government regulations governed by the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and HIPAA. For all digitally signed documents at Company XYZ, the electronic...
[October 2, 2009, 1:23]
Senior management 'clueless' about RFID
News The US Food and Drug Administration is actively encouraging the use of the track and trace chips to secure the supply chain. One such feasibility study in the US saw several major drug manufacturers, including Abbott Laboratories, Johnson & Johnson...
[October 8, 2004, 17:20]
Pfizer firms up RFID plans
News The company hopes more of its partners will purchase the readers based on recommendations from the US Food and Drug Administration, which is urging the drug industry to adopt the technology. Pharmacists and drug distributors can retrieve the codes...
[January 9, 2006, 9:00]
Doctor sues over mobile irradiation
News Dr Chris Newman of Maryland launched the suit against the companies in Baltimore City Circuit Court even though the US Food and Drug Administration says there is no evidence that radiation from mobile phones poses a health risk.
[August 3, 2000, 12:15]
Keeping your ear to the blogosphere
News Just two months later, Kraft announced it would begin to cut trans fats out of its many snack products, and shortly afterwards, the US Food and Drug Administration began requiring manufacturers to list trans fat content on nutrition-fact labels.
[January 4, 2006, 14:15]
Wal-Mart provides RFID boost
News The US Department of Defense and the Food and Drug Administration are encouraging companies to deploy the technology, too. A forecast from research firm IDC estimates that US retailers and their suppliers spent just $90m or so last year on RFID...
[December 23, 2004, 8:40]
Justice, the American way
Leader This Justice Department pronouncement will be good news to the producers and consumers of illicit narcotics in the US who can now ask the Food and Drug Administration to desist in "substituting their judgment for the market's", and bring joy to...
[December 8, 2005, 13:15]
How to get consumers to swallow electronic tags
News Last week the US Food and Drug Administration approved a plan to allow hospitals to place RFID tags under patients' skin. He painted a picture of a future in which a fridge could check the RFID tags on its contents, flagging up which food was about...
[October 18, 2004, 12:15]
IBM introduces RFID tools
News The Food and Drug Administration set a deadline of 1 December, 2006, for US pharmaceutical companies to comply with regulations regarding paper trails, known as "pedigrees", for their drugs. IBM's new software could enable secondary wholesalers to...
[December 18, 2006, 11:35]
US authorities to put pinch on site hijackers
News During a recent congressional hearing set to examine how federal agencies were dealing with the proliferation of Web sites illegally dispensing prescription drugs, the Food and Drug Administration was upbraided by House members for its lack of...
[September 16, 1999, 9:39]
RFID may become a $3bn business by 2010
News Woods pointed to the role of the Food and Drug Administration, which is pushing for RFID tags to combat sales of fake pharmaceutical products. The US Department of Defense, for instance, recently insisted that its suppliers of packaged rations...
[December 14, 2005, 14:40]
RFID hospital trials reach Europe
News RFID has already made its way into healthcare, with the technology used to track drugs, and the US Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of the tags in humans. The Klinikum Saarbrücken in Germany is launching a trial that will tag 1,000...
[April 21, 2005, 18:05]
Subcutaneous RFID tags upset privacy advocates
News Privacy advocates are outraged at the US Food and Drug Administrations' approval of using RFID chips inside humans for medical purposes. Clarke has argued that although the US solution is a simple identifier chip and can only be used with the...
[October 15, 2004, 11:40]
Smart chips get under our skin
News While he insists that the main reason is an economic one -- a small end market and the amount of time such a technology would take to get FDA (Food and Drug Administration) approval are the reasons he states -- he also cites privacy worries and...
[January 23, 2001, 14:08]
Feds go after Sars spammers
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are warning that people who hawk products related to Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) could be subject to fines because their claims are not backed up by...
[May 12, 2003, 9:12]
Meeting US FDA 21 CFR Part 11 Requirements
White Papers Food and Drug Administration (FDA) introduced 21 CFR Part 11 (Part 11) regulations to promote wide usage of electronic technology in the life sciences industry in a way that is compatible with FDA's responsibility to protect public health.
[July 13, 2007, 14:11]
