• EFPIA seeks vendors for EU medicine verification system
  EFPIA has laid out its vision of how the system of safety features enshrined in the EU Falsified Medicines Directive might work in a call-for-tender document.
  
• Argentina extends medicine traceability initiative
  Argentina has announced a major extension to its medicines traceability project, boosting the number of drugs covered by the initiative from 350 to around 2,300.
  
• Stakeholders push lot-level traceability model at committee hearing
  Pharma industry groups and other stakeholders in the USA are bidding for inclusion of a supply chain security model in the latest PDUFA package which stops short of a full, item-level pedigree for medicines but would allow lot-level traceability.
  
• EDQM showcases eTACT traceability system
  The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines (EDQM) has confirmed its intention to continue the development of its eTACT drug traceability system.
  
• USP publishes draft general chapter on supply chain integrity
  USP has published its proposed general chapter on good distribution practices to ensure pharmaceutical supply chain integrity and is seeking comments.
  

Latest papers:

Comparison of EU Serialization Initiatives

Databases: no longer fit for purpose for Serialisation and Track & Trace

PrintSpect: The Intelligent Marking and Control System

The Medicrime Convention: combating counterfeiting of medical products and similar crimes

Zuellig Pharma Specialty Solutions Group: connect with us to connect with Asia!

The challenge of prescription medication adherence: how serialisation can improve outcomes

Track-and-trace in China: what you need to know

Applying supply chain best practices from other industries to healthcare

On-dosage and on-packaging solutions to combat counterfeit medicine

4th Annual UPS "Pain in the (Supply) Chain" survey

Improving patient outcomes and accelerating growth through serialisation: 2015 is a footnote

After Heparin: Protecting Consumers from the Risks of Substandard and Counterfeit Drugs

Neri BL400 labelling and printing machines for pharma serialisation

Covectra CSP Serialization Gateway for pharma contract service providers

Centice PINPOINT Rx™: prescription drug identification system

Assessing the Risk of Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals in the Online Marketplace

Addressing the Global Counterfeit Drug Trade: Interview with Tom Kubic

Phony drugs, real solutions: practical anti-counterfeiting considerations

Cryptoglyph® invisible marking using standard printing processes

Combating counterfeit, falsified and substandard medicines: defining the way forward?

White paper on the anti-counterfeiting of medicines

Latest research:

Pharmaceutical serialization: moving from "if" to "how"

Wireless Opportunities in Healthcare 2011 (The market for Bluetooth, RFID, Zigbee, UWB WWAN, WMAN, WLAN and other technologies)

Impact of counterfeits on the pharmaceutical industry: Counterfeiting poses threats to patient safety and revenues of pharmaceutical companies

Pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting technologies: market analysis 2011-2021

Global anti-counterfeit markets in food & pharmaceutical applications by geography, technology trends and forecasts (2010-2015)

Anti-counterfeiting packaging technologies in the global pharmaceutical and food industries

The Future of Pharmaceutical Distribution in Europe - The impact of DTP on manufacturers and wholesalers

Anti-Counterfeit Packaging: a Global Business Report

Pharmaceutical Anti-counterfeiting Strategies and Commercial Analysis 2010-2020

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Pharma: Supply Chain Security Concerns Provide Impetus for RFID Adoption

Global Anti Counterfeit Packaging Technologies Market For Food and Pharmaceuticals (2009-2014)

The Future of Anticounterfeiting, Brand Protection & Security Packaging V

Impact of Counterfeits on Parallel Trade & Pharmaceutical Distribution

Pharmaceutical Distribution in the US: Current and Future Perspectives

RFID for Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals 2009-2019

Filling the Holes in the Drug Supply Chain (Strategic Focus)

RFID Forecasts, Players and Opportunities: 2009-2019

The Pharmaceutical Wholesale and Distribution Industry Outlook & Analysis 2008

Pharmaceutical Supply chain strategies: Reassessing product distribution to cut costs and improve supply chain management

Latest events:

Life Sciences Serialization & Traceability for Brand Protection Conference
May 10-11, 2012 - Philadelphia (PA), USA

Security Document World 2012
May 21-23, 2012 - London, UK

USP Workshop on Supply Chain Integrity
May 22-23, 2012 - Rockville (MD), USA

1st Latin American High Security Printing Conference
Jun.12-14, 2012 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Pharma Supply Chain Directors Dialogue
Jun.18-19, 2012 - Windsor, UK

Pharmaceutical Packaging & Labelling Summit
Jun.26-27, 2012 - Basel, Switzerland

European GMPs and the Role of the QP
Jun.27-28, 2012 - Bethesda (MD), USA

6th PHARMA JAPAN Int'l Pharmaceutical Ingredients Expo & Conference
Jun.27-29, 2012 - Tokyo, Japan

Biopharmaceutical Forum on Clinical & Commercial Global Supply Chain Excellence
Jul.24-25, 2012 - New Brunswick (NJ), USA

PABS™ 2012: Product Authentication & Brand Security
Sep.10-11, 2012 - Chicago (IL), USA

Labelexpo Americas 2012
Sep.11-13, 2012 - Chicago (IL), USA

A-CAPPP Executive Education Seminar: Anti-Counterfeiting Strategy-Risk Assessment
Sep.26-27, 2012 - East Lansing (MI), USA

INTERPHEX Puerto Rico
Oct.04-05, 2012 - San Juan, Puerto Rico

Emballage 2012
Nov.19-22, 2012 - Paris, France

World Drug Manufacturing Summit
Nov.26-28, 2012 - Düsseldorf, Germany