When nearly 20 years ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new rule 1 that pharmaceutical manufacturers must include a linear bar code on all immediate drug packages that included each ...

LAKE ZURICH, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fresenius Kabi announced today the introduction of a three-year plan to add GS1 Data Matrix barcodes to its pharmaceutical portfolio of vials, syringes, IV ...

Conventonal bar codes such as Universal Product Codes (UPCs) have gained wide acceptance in applications ranging from checkout and inventory control in retail sales to tracking PCB serial numbers in ...

Since the government began requiring its suppliers to mark parts and assemblies with two-dimensional Data Matrix codes, the use of these codes has exploded even for products not destined for ...