What is PharmaCode? Why is it used? How to pronounce? And more…
Developed by Laetus GMBH, a German company founded in 1974, we can consider Pharmacode as the original error prevention solution for pharmaceutical packaging.
The purpose of a pharmacocode is to ensure that the product in a package is the correct product, with the correct supporting documentation (which the pharmaceutical company must print to protect it from legal liability). It is a packaging control system designed to prevent packaging errors. It is also a very durable symbol designed to survive printing errors and subsequent post-production damage.
Farmakod is a coding system designed in a 2-bar system, which is formed by combinations of 2 types of bars: thin and thick.
The smallest number that can be encoded is 3 (2 narrow bars) and the largest is 131070 (16 wide bars).
For best practice (better security), the code should always contain at least 3 bars and always be a combination of both thick and thin bars.
Pharmacode is technically not really a barcode. Although it encodes a numeric data type like a UPC, it does not have a start-stop pattern and therefore the pharmacocode is intended to be scanned in one direction only. Scanning from left to right takes a different sequence of numbers than scanning from right to left.
Apart from this, due to its presence in the healthcare industry, there is some confusion as to whether the pharmacocode, now implemented in the US and elsewhere, will be replaced by the UDI system. In fact, the pharmacocode will not be affected by the UDI initiative, since the UDI system deals with medical devices and the pharmacocode deals only with pharmaceutical products.
In addition, with Omron FH In fact, while reading your pharmacocode, you can also have 100% security for your other checks on the medicine box or package insert.
