Update yourself on e-Pedigree

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Dear All,

A month or so ago someone emailed me privately and asked if I had any

more information on E-Pedigree. Well here are a few sites you may

want to read to get a bit more familiar with e-Ped.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epedigree

http://www.supplyscape.com/products/security/pedigree/index.html

Schwarzenegger Terminates 2009 ePedigree Deadline

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that

delays the state's 2009 electronic pedigree mandate for prescription

drugs until 2015.

Under the new law, a manufacturer must have an epedigree by 2015 for

50 percent of its drugs sold in California. Unit volumes, SKUs or

drug product families may define the 50 percent figure.

By July 2016, wholesalers may not purchase a prescription drug

without an epedigree. Pharmacies and pharmacy warehouses have until

July 2017 to comply. The Board of Pharmacy may not delay the

implementation timelines in the law.

Pedigrees would need to be applied to the smallest product package or

container, according to the law.

An epedigree may consist either of 2D bar codes or radio-frequency

identification tags, Virginia Herold, executive director of the

California Board of Pharmacy, told MQN.

A copy of the bill can be accessed at www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-

08/bill/sen/sb_1301-1350/sb_1307_bill_20080826_enrolled.pdf.

Hope this helps,

Jeanetta Mastron CPhT BS

Pharm Tech Educator

F/O