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Web Sightings
Informative and interesting industry news and views from web sites around the globe.
FDA Rule Requires Bar Codes on Drugs and Blood to Help Reduce Errors
As part of a wide-ranging effort to improve patient safety, on Feb. 25, 2004, FDA finalized a rule requiring bar codes on the labels of thousands of human drugs and biological products. The measure aims to protect patients from preventable medication errors by helping ensure that health professionals give patients the right drugs at the appropriate dosages.
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Bar Code History
In 1932 an ambitious project was conducted by a small group of students headed by Wallace Flint at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. The project proposed that customers select desired merchandise from a catalog by removing corresponding punched cards from the catalog.
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Why Validate?
The Pharmaceutical and Medical Device industries have many national and international regulatory requirements that they must satisfy to ensure that they are allowed to continue to manufacture and sell their products.
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A look at how one man's invention led to changes in drug packaging
Necessity, according to Irish author Jonathan Swift, is the mother of invention. Indeed, it was both necessity and motherhood that motivated David Wagner of Geneva, Ill., to invent a device to help his wife remember to take her birth-control pills.
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The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council
The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC) is a not-for-profit trade association that was established in 1990 to promote the many benefits of unit dose blister and strip packaging -- especially its ability to be designed in compliance-prompting formats that help people take their medications properly.
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