In Saudi Arabia, work has been underway since 2015 to make medicines safer and prevent counterfeiting through serialization. Unlike in Europe (end-to-end), a complete track-and-trace system will be introduced. Designation: Drug Track and Trace System for Pharmaceutical Products (RSD) Competent authority: Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) Products: All medicines for humans and animals Code […]
In Abu Dhabi, medicines must be serialized since the beginning of 2022. The Arab Emirates (UAE) are gradually implementing pharma serialization regulations. Competent authority: Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHaP), UAE Products: all pharmaceutical products listed with the Department for Health as approved drugs Code type: GS1 Data Matrix Aggregation: Required starting January 2023 Despite cooperation on this point, […]
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As one of the biggest economies in Latin America, Brazil is joining numerous other countries to mandate serialization in its pharmaceutical supply chain. The implementation of the regulations ensures the tracking of every event along the supply chain, where all supply chain members must be involved in the entire process. Also, these sets of requirements […]
It has taken four years for the British to finally leave after their referendum against remaining in the European Union. Despite the last-minute trade deal, the impact of Brexit on the Pharma and Medtech industries is huge, and they are left with only a little concrete information. In 2016, just over half of the Britons […]
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Counterfeit medicines have long been a topic with global implications, which countries are countering with legal regulations, among other things. Raw materials come from China or India, the subsidiaries are in Europe and the USA, and the drugs are distributed worldwide. Due to the global networking of the pharmaceutical industry, internationally active companies must comply […]
| Our student trainees Software development and cloud computing require continuous development to steadily improve current operating principles. A significant job in this regard is done by our student trainees. They intensively work on projects that show us new technologies and approaches. Lynne has been working for tracekey as a student trainee since the end of […]
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Every day, several thousand alerts are generated in the serialization process in Germany alone. […]
Consolidated shipment data can be implemented in different ways. This is partly because there are no comprehensive standards that providers have to comply with. How does the cloud platform mytracekey HospitalDirect differ from other possible solutions for offering digital data delivery? There are different approaches for the offer of consolidated shipment data (German: WBDL). In […]
Since 1st July 2020, Russian Federal Law No. 425-FZ (Decree No. 1556) must be officially implemented by pharmaceutical manufacturers. Shortly before the deadline, the pharmaceutical industry tried to obtain a postponement. The new legislation, which will gradually be extended to include clothing, tobacco, and perfume, among others, is intended to prevent counterfeit medicines and black-market […]
Although the purchasing associations of hospitals now classify the consolidated shipment data delivery (German: WBDL) as a quality criterion for the pharmaceutical companies, many manufacturers do not yet offer a shipment data service for hospitals. There are currently no official figures. According to our own estimates, about 13 pharmaceutical companies currently offer the delivery of […]