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While researching topics on blood labeling and safety measures, I came across an interesting interview done by AIM (Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility) with Dr. Clive Hohberger, Consulting RFID Systems Architect. AIM’s interview with Dr. Hohberger included topics such as: a history of blood bag tracking and what has changed, including the use of RFID. his […]

This week’s news reported another food recall for the northeast region released this week . On July 22, 2012, Cargill announced a voluntary recall of about 29,300 pounds of 85-percent-lean ground beef produced May 25, 2012, in Wyalusing, Pa.   So why did it take so long to announce the recall? The Centers for Disease […]

A lot of DoD contractors have to produce labels that meet the MIL-STD-130 UID rules. Here at Winco ID, we use BarTender label software for the UID labels we print for our clients. A while ago, I posted some tutorials on YouTube on how I go about this and wanted to share them here: Note […]

Would you like to be able to use barcodes in order to let people quickly get information, but also want to be able to restrict the number of people with access to the data? One way to do this is to encode your data into an encrypted QR code that can be password protected. I […]

For help with keeping our supply chains under control and for tracking and traceability of all kinds of items, bar codes have an important role to play. Of course, when a barcode label is printed and applied to an item, it is expected that any scanner will be able to read and decode the encoded data […]