The major markets for pharmaceuticals have been forever transformed with the arrival of mandated serialization. With both the United States Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) and European Union ...

Progress is being made, but work remains to be done. Brian Daleiden, vice president of marketing at TraceLink, discusses the state of the industry, as companies attempt to meet complex, and changing, ...

A new assessment shows year-over-year improvements on meeting DSCSA serialization requirements, which indicate the industry is making steady progress. The ability to accurately identify and track ...

Now past the “wait-and-see” standoff, most pharmaceutical companies and their contract partners are considering long-term requirements, including distributors’ needs. Vendor-sponsored events in 2016 ...

Pharmaceutical counterfeiting is on the rise – and a growing health and safety issue with deep consequences for consumers and manufacturers alike. A number of factors contribute to counterfeiting, ...

Serialization is the process of saving an object’s state to a sequence of bytes; deserialization is the process of rebuilding those bytes into a live object. The Java Serialization API provides a ...

Serialization converts an object's state into a stream of bytes so that it can be persisted in a permanent or temporary storage medium When working with applications, you’ll often need to store data ...