Traditionally food travelled direct from the producer to the consumers. Eggs directly from the chickens, milk from the cows, vegetables from the garden. This still happens in many rural areas and has become more common again within developed cultures through farm and speciality shops. The supply chain quickly becomes more complex. A miller grinds from …
The DataMatrix barcode is no longer required on mainland UK pharmaceutical packs but is often still present on them and on other packaged goods. Serialogical’s development of our FMD solution has highlighted the obvious advantages of DataMatrix together with a few elements that could be improved from the FMD model. DataMatrix advantages: Easy to add …
The EU and UK FMD system is secured to ensure that only appropriate bodies are able to access the system. This ensures that any changing of a FMD pack’s status can only be made by those who have a right and a need to do so. Indeed without the necessary permission it is not possible …
How the pharmacist can work with prescriptions in FMD The combination of serial number, product code, batch number and date is unique for each FMD labelled packet. This means that having access to one or more packets even within the same batch will not enable any other codes to be calculated. The concept of aggregation …
Capturing FMD data matrix barcodes with a scanner As the FMD implementation deadline approaches verifiers and dispensers will need to consider how to capture the serialisation unique identifier codes. The codes may be read from the product package and typed in or a supplier could provide codes linked to a shipment as an electronic file. …
Looking Inside the Barcodes The new barcodes for the FMD are 2-dimensional data matrix codes. These look similar to the more common QR barcodes but do not work the same way. Although the unique identification number contained within the data matrix code will be displayed in clear text next to the code the length and …