The pain of cold chain disruption worth $35 billion per year According to the World Bank’s 2024 Global Cold Chain Report, 32% of vaccines and 19% of fresh food are scrapped due to temperature control failure, with annual losses reaching $35 billion. In 2023, a batch of COVID-19 vaccines failed due to label data drift,…
Fatal accident: an ignored 0.3mm error In March 2023, a major medical accident occurred in a medical center: during a heart bypass surgery, the RFID tag on the titanium alloy surgical forceps fell off after more than 120 high-pressure steam sterilizations, causing the instrument to fall into the patient’s body. Subsequent investigations found that: The…
Industry upheaval: Three major driving forces for the reconstruction of RFID tag selection standards in 2024 In March 2024, the 27th amendment to the EU REACH Regulation officially limited the content of bisphenol A in RFID tag adhesives to less than 0.1%. At the same time, the density of RFID reading nodes in Amazon logistics…