Faulding Pharmaceutical Co announces bar-coding of complete range of injectables.

(From Chemical Business NewsBase - Press Release)

Faulding Pharmaceutical Co, a subsidiary of Mayne Group Ltd, has re-designed its complete range of packaging and labelling to help hospital users ensure that medication errors are reduced and that the right medication is administered to the right patient in the right dose. Effective for all production from Jan 2003, bar-coding is now included over the complete product range on every individual unit-of-use vial/ampule. Recognizing that bar-coding is only part of the solution in helping reduce medication errors, Faulding Pharmaceutical has also re-designed its packaging to improve readability of drug name, dosage, volume …