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It is estimated that 30% of perishable food crops are lost in transit, costing billions of dollars in profits and putting additional pressure on already high food costs. With biofuels diverting crops formerly grown for food, such unnecessary losses are now driving the problem into the realm of national security.

According to a recent informal poll of Healthcare Packaging (HCP) readers, half the respondents agreed that packaging should enter the stream at the beginning of the clinical trial. An encouraging number, considering the metamorphosis the primary package will likely undergo as the drug formulation continues to change during the course of the trial.

The outcome of this study should help programs determine the most appropriate interventions. If evidence demonstrates, for example, that freezing occurs most commonly during vaccine transport, new procedures for conditioning of ice packs, or ice-free transport can be implemented. If there is a correlation between specific types of refrigerators and freezing, equipment replacement may be required or, alternatively, more attention given to the training of cold chain supervisors.

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Med-ic ECM technology records patient adherence to correlate critical bloodwork

Med-ic RFID smart sensor labels will monitor over 250,000 doses in a large Phase II clinical trial to be conducted in Europe over the next 6 months. IMC has already delivered 6,000 self-adhesive smart labels to Aptuit, the study’s packaging supplier.

IDTechEx staged its annual conference on Active RFID and Real Time Locating Systems RTLS in Dallas USA 5-6 December. Delegates at over 240 and exhibitors at 20 were again sharply up, reflecting this prosperous and innovative industry. Here we look at aspects relevant to printed electronics. Passive RFID is most amenable to being totally printed because, in most cases, the logic consists of just a memory chip. However, although printing the microprocessors commonly used in active RFID is probably ten years off, the opportunity to print the antennas, sensors, interconnects and batteries is much closer. The primary motivation is to make these devices thinner, flexible and lower in cost.

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