2018-09-06 | China Announces New Drug Traceability Regulations.

In late August, the China National Drug Administration (CNDA) posted three new draft guidance documents detailing a proposed National Drug Regulatory Information Standard and Traceability System. Chinese versions of the drafts are available now but the agency is requesting feedback from stakeholders and the public to be submitted by September 20, 2018. Final versions are likely to appear soon after that.

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2018-08-21 | Egypt, India and Pakistan Delay Their Pharma Serialization Deadlines

In 2017, the largest market for pharmaceuticals—the United States—delayed enforcement of their key pharma serialization requirement. The revised deadline for serialization and verification here is November 27, 2018, one year later than originally specified by Congress in the Drug Supply Chain Security Act. A few months before that delay was announced, Brazil withdrew their entire regulation, changed their law, and published a more reasonable timeline that would result in full serialization by...

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2018-02-19 | Serialization is Only the First Step in DSCSA Compliance

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are working non-stop to get the serialization systems in place necessary to meet the USA DSCSA mandate going live this November, and the EU FMD mandate going live the following February of 2019.  If serialization projects aren’t in full flight at this time, there is a significant chance that a manufacturer will not meet the deadline, not be compliant, and not be able to distribute products in those geographies.

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2018-01-19 | Servicepoint and Systech: Serialization for the Falsified Medicines Directive

The EU FMD deadline of Feb 9, 2019 is approaching fast, with only a year of implementation time left. While big pharma has largely implemented serialization, medium and small manufacturers, as well as CMOs and virtual pharmas, are lagging in beginning their implementation. Knowledgeable integration help is in short supply, as is associated hardware. The newly signed serialization regulation for Russia’s pharmaceutical market adds to the workload in EMEA.

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2017-12-20 | 4 Pitfalls to Avoid in Your Serialization Implementation

The EU Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) deadlines are now live. It is now time to reflect on this massive undertaking, and look at some “lessons learned”. We say this, because we are hearing grumblings in the field that serialization implementation projects are still ongoing. Additionally, the data integration requirements require live data connectivity to repositories like the EU Hub. Finally, when companies create new packaging lines, they will need to be equipped for serialization –...

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2017-12-15 | Part II: More Actionable Items to Jump-Start Your Serialisation Strategy
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2017-12-08 | Part I: Actionable Items to Jump-Start your Serialisation Strategy
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2017-11-10 | Europe's Readiness for the Falsified Medicines Directive is Lagging GS1 Ireland and Enterprise System Partners (ESP) just published an interesting Serialization Industry Readiness Report 2017 .  The report is based on their survey of drug manufacturers, CMOs, virtual manufacturers and others who will fall under the European Union Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) when it goes into effect on February 9, 2019.  The readiness survey was conducted between May and July 2017.
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2017-11-03 | Serialisation Readiness Requires Working with Knowledgeable, Experienced Partners
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2017-10-27 | GS1 Healthcare Conference Recap

Systech is a member and strong supporter of GS1 Healthcare, the global group that promotes standardization in healthcare product and entity identification.  On October 17, 2017 in Chicago, GS1 Healthcare held their fall Global Healthcare Conference.

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