Pharmaceutical Serialization

In an effort to combat the risk of counterfeit and adulterated drugs, national regulators have pursued the need for product serialization. A complete serialization program represents the complete history of a given product's chain of custody from the manufacturer to the point of dispensing.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers are investing in ways to uniquely serialize each unit and to register the parent child relationships of units into larger containers, cases or cartons and even up to pallets. The information required in a serialization program is strongly dependant on the many different national laws and standards. The pharmaceutical industry has already started to mass serialize drugs and there are already standards and concepts being implemented in Europe and the world today.