The Pharmaceutical Commerce Value Chain E-newsletter, for example, ran a story in late August that said, "January 2015 is the date under consideration; federal preemption is specified." A Sept. 4 online report from the Gerson Lehman Group also published the 2015 date, saying, "The new CA timeline comes from SB1307, a bill sponsored by CA state Senator Mark Ridley-Thomas and passed by the state assembly on August 19 by a vote of 58 to 1." Compliance guidelines, according to the www.glgroup.com story, were as follows: For manufacturers, 50 percent of product lines serialized by Jan. 1, 2015; 100 percent by Jan. 1, 2016. For wholesalers, Jan. 1, 2016; Jan 1, 2017 for pharmacies. Meanwhile, at the LogiPharma event in Philadelphia in September, one speaker intimated that a federal e-pedigree plan is in the works that could render obsolete any state plan. Stay tuned for further developments...
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