Showing posts with label Bar Codes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bar Codes. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2013

Pharmalot Ed Silverman: FDA Scraps Bar Code Experiment with Compounders


In the wake of the fungal meningitis outbreak that was linked to a compounding pharmacy and has so far caused as many as 45 deaths, the FDA has nixed an experiment proposed several years ago by a different compounding pharmacy that hoped to use bar codes after its medicines were shipped as a way of identifying patient use. The idea, of course, is not the same as compounding specific drugs for individual patients with prescriptions ahead of time.

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