Tracing systems for biological products in the agro-food supply chain to support clinic and nutritional applications

The item-level tagging is one of the main challenges of many application scenarios. Among these, the pharmaceutical supply chain represents a very interesting case where the new auto-identification technologies, based on RFID and EPCglobal, will play a very import role. The authors present practical experiences gained from a recent research project on the item-level traceability in the pharmaceutical supply chain. Furthermore, a discussion on an extension of the tracing platform able to provide addition services to support clinic and nutritional applications for people with multiple intolerances is reported.