Standards: Are They Really Standard?

In the June issue of packagePRINTING magazine, we told a story of Oscar, a French bulldog who was injected with four RFID tags. (The use of RFID for the identification of companion animals, referred to as micro-chipping, is a very mature application whereby small glass-encapsulated tags are implanted as sub-dermal tracking/identification devices containing preprogrammed memory encoding. This technique offers a means for enabling accurate identification of the animal.)