Traceability system a must for drugs: GS1 chief
- June 22, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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Traceability system a must for drugs: GS1 chief
Subject : Governance
Context : Barcoding medicines sold in the country offers immense potential in tracking the availability as well as in fighting counterfeiting, said Swaminathan
Concept :
GS1 India
- GS1 India is a Standards body (registered under Societies Registration Act 1860) with founder members comprising Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM, FIEO, IMC, APEDA, Spices Board, IIP and BIS. It is affiliated with GS1® a not for profit global standards organisation.
- GS1 India mission is to improve the efficiency, safety and visibility of supply chains across physical and digital channels through the use of global GS1 standards.
- GS1 is a not-for-profit, industry-led global organisation headquartered in Brussels and oversees operations of 115 GS1 Organisations across the world.
About Barcode:
- A barcode, consisting of bars and spaces is a machine-readable representation of numerals and characters. It is also known as Universal Product Code (UPC). It is used to efficiently identify and track objects and people.
- Barcode was co-developed by George Laurier and Norman Joseph Woodland in 1973.
Types of Barcode:
- One-dimensional barcode: Numeric-only barcodes: barcodes consisting of only numbers.
- Alpha-numeric barcodes: contain a combination of numbers and alphabetic characters.
- Two-dimensional Barcode: It is in the shape of a square or rectangle and contains many small dots arranged in a unique pattern. It is also known as Quick Response (QR) code.