The major markets for pharmaceuticals have been forever transformed with the arrival of mandated serialization. With both the United States Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and European Union ...

Serialization converts an object's state into a stream of bytes so that it can be persisted in a permanent or temporary storage medium When working with applications, you’ll often need to store data ...

For some manufacturers, the goal was to be fully compliant with the DSCSA, including both serialization and aggregation, from day one. Enacted by Congress on Nov. 27, 2013, the US Drug Supply Chain ...

Ten years after enactment by Congress, the Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) serialization mandates finally took effect in November 2023. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has extended ...

Now past the “wait-and-see” standoff, most pharmaceutical companies and their contract partners are considering long-term requirements, including distributors’ needs. Vendor-sponsored events in 2016 ...

Compliance is a serious issue for India’s pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors, and retailers; due to the complicated nature of the pharmaceutical supply chain. Serialization requires ...

Faster machines, better materials and improved software have made additive manufacturing increasingly viable for mass production. With the majority of technical barriers eliminated, the next challenge ...

As a contract development and manufacturing organization, Patheon provides services to big and small pharmaceutical companies—and packaging is a key part of what it does. Therefore, the company must ...

During the 2017 ISA Food and Pharmaceuticals Industries Division (FPID) Symposium, I attended an informative presentation by John Woodburn on the implementation of serialization and lessons learned.