Editor Nick Basta wrote in Pharmaceutical Commerce about WDSrx packaging and labeling programs that serialize product being utilized by small and mid-size pharmaceutical manufacturers to stay in business after the November 27, 2017 deadline. Smaller manufacturers with either a limited number of products, or a product volume too small to economically justify installing a DSCSA-compliant packaging line, now have another option. Read the full story here.

Printers on the WDSrx packaging lines utilize serial numbers generated from the Level 4 repository and imprint a unique 2D barcode on each bottle revealing a National Drug Code (NDC), a GS1-standard Global Trade Item Number (GTIN), an individual Serial Number, Lot Number and Expiration Date.