According to an article in the Cincinnati Business Courier today, the RFID tags
tested at Cardinal Health’s warehouses in New York and Boston failed to
meet the ‘reads-per-second’ rate that the manufacturer promised. The accuracy of the reads was in the 96% to 98%
range.
The technology is being used to help combat counterfeit drugs by improving the tracking of drugs. Columbus, Ohio-based Cardinal Health is one of the nation’s largest prescription drug distributors. The company expects RFID systems to yield long-term benefits, but offered that technical problems in the early stages need to be fixed before the technology can be utilized in the drug industry.
The FDA wants the technology deployed in the drug supply chain by 2007.








1. In the FDA press release it says:
"RFID technology makes it easier to ensure that drugs are authentic.."
How is that? Just as you can create fake barcodes, can't you create fake RFID tags?
Posted at 4:17PM on Jun 16th 2005 by Dan Diephouse