Electronic Product Code (EPC) Supports Authentication Track and Trace ...

... the Auto-ID System can be used to systematically access databases of all companies or entities that have handled the product. This helps build an Electronic Pedigree for the particular product. The Authentication, Track and Trace approaches mentioned above depend heavily on the capability to uniquely identify individual drugs within the supply chain at the primary package level. An Electronic Product Code (EPC) is applied to each primary package unit and this is the basis for Mass Serialization of pharmaceutical product. Using bar code systems to read and account for billions of unique identifiers is laborious. RFID is a more efficient technology to execute Mass Serialization in the supply chain. ...