Security: You Either Get It or You Don’t

Subsequent reports by the FDA recognize that there are significant issues to iron out, such as managing sensitive, secure databases and determining which frequency and signaling protocol will be used. On the latter points, Wal-Mart demands that Type 2 drugs be tagged with UHF labels, its motives being efficiency and security against theft and fraud, more than anti-counterfeiting. However, most individual drug containers do not have more than one RFID label, and the pharmaceutical manufacturers mainly favor HF, a different frequency. Major software and systems companies have made great progress in providing the necessary secure databases and networks for item-level RFID on drugs.