Electro-Com offers TI-RFID Tag-It range of 13.56MHz RFID tags and readers for Pharmaceutical and Healthcare applications.
The pharmaceutical industry is currently faced with issues such as logistic product recalls and product returns due to overstocking or expiry (which costs drug companies more than 2.7billion US dollars annually) and counterfeit products (which makes up to 7% of all pharmaceutical products in the international supply chain).
The pharmaceutical industry is seeking a better way to monitor the drug supply through the whole product life cycle, from manufacture to the medicine cabinet.
RFID is seen as a way of solving these issues by ensuring the validity of data in the industry which will in turn improve product quality and safety and reduce costs.
According to The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s, RFID provides promising approach for reliably tracking, tracing and authenticating pharmaceutical products and is recommending widespread use of RFID in the pharmaceutical supply chain at the item level by 2007.
The 13.56MHz RFID technology is seen as the ideal technology for item level tagging based on reduced interference, better anti-collision capabilities, smaller form factor and increased memory capabilities compared to technologies such as UHF.