Coding, Printing & Labeling

Purdue Pharma uses RFID on OxyContin

In mid-November, Stamford, CT-based Purdue Pharma LP announced a pilot program to apply radio-frequency identification (RFID) labels to 100-ct bottles of its OxyContin tablets shipped to Wal-Mart and wholesaler H. D. Smith, two of its largest customers.

November 30, 2004

Labeling: Page 120

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Bruce Foods commits to RFID

Bruce Foods will implement radio-frequency identification for its specialty foods in 2005.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

Firm solves RF/RFID pollution

Pharmacy and benefits management firm Prescription Solutions solves a vexing frequency problem between its bottle-tracking RFID-enabled pucks and an induction sealer.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

RFID tag benchmark study

Like to know how different RFID tags perform head-to-head under various conditions? This benchmark study looked at how eight different tags performed.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Synch or sink: Demystifying data synchronization

With data pools and the like, it’s synch or sink, as an expert explains why data synchronization is the foundation of successful RFID.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Label-Aire introduces new Web site with innovative "Live Help" feature

A new "Live Help" feature gives visitors instant access to a live personwho can answer questions pertaining to their Label-Aire labelers.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID tag shortage?

If Wal-Mart had insisted that all its top 100 suppliers ship all products into the Texas distribution centers with RFID tags on boxes and pallets, a shortage of RFID tags could ensue.

November 30, 2004

Labels

Companies

Sun Chemical Corp.

November 30, 2004

Labeling

Single food-safety agency?

Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) introduced comprehensive legislation to create a single food-safety agency that would combine the food safety regulatory authority of USDA, FDA, and the seafood program operated by the Department of Commerce.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Delay in seafood COOL

The U.S. Department of Agriculture extended by six months mandatory country-of-origin labeling for fresh and frozen fish and seafood that had been scheduled to take effect in September 2004.

November 30, 2004

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Packaging Innovations for Food & Beverage: When Innovative Packaging Imitates Life

January 19-20, 2005Radisson Hotel Miami, FLwww.marcusevansbb.com/packaginginnovations

November 30, 2004

Flexible packaging

Rising machinery shipments show promise

Packaging machinery shipments in the United States reached $4.889 billion last year, an $82 million (or 1.7%) increase from 2002, according to the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute’s 10th Annual Shipments and Outlook Study.

November 30, 2004

Conveying & accumulation

RFID: The promise and the struggle

Hype about radio-frequency identification clashes with reality at Baltimore EPC Global conference.

November 30, 2004