Official Says Industry Should Pick up the Pace in Serializing Products
This article was originally published in The Gold Sheet
Executive Summary
Time is of the essence in complying with the serialization provisions of the Drug Supply Chain Security Act, warns Pfizer official. Too many manufacturers are waiting on the sidelines instead of getting these systems up and running before new serialization mandates go into effect in 2017.
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