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Drug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility Laws

Drug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility LawsDrug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility LawsDrug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility Laws


Different laws with different objectives that share a common denominator

Drug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility Laws

Drug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility LawsDrug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility LawsDrug Supply Chain Security Act ~ ~ ~ Extended Producer Responsibility Laws


Different laws with different objectives that share a common denominator

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Drug Supply Chain Security Act

Each year, pharmaceutical manufacturers, in compliance with the U.S. Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA), use open standards to convey serialized product information on more than 4 billion pharmaceutical sellable units, many of them HDPE bottles. 


Industry invested billions of dollars to secure and track & trace these units through the supply chain to their ultimate destination, where they are dispensed to the patient.  

Once empty of product, unit labels maybe defaced and discarded either to be recycled or landfilled.

Use of serialized product information is not typically utilized in the disposal process of these bottles.  

Extended Producer Responsibility

This practice may change as states like Maine, Oregon and Colorado pass Extended Producer Responsibility laws that hold manufacturers accountable for recycling packaging they introduce to the state. 

Extended Producer Responsibility Programs

EPR  programs were first formally introduced in Sweden byThomas Lindhqvist in a 1990 report to the Swedish Ministry of the Environment.  


A key feature of EPR programs is fee modulation, which penalizes the use of materials that are less environmentally friendly and rewards the use of materials that are. 

Extended Producer Responsibility Programs

With climate issues top of mind and the cost of recycling increasing, Maine passed a law in 2021 becoming the first in the United States to do so, requiring producers — instead of taxpayers — to fund recycling of end-of-life plastic bottles into new bottles.    


Maine was joined by Oregon  and Colorado  who passed their own version of Producer Responsibility (EPR) Programs in 2021 and 2022 respectively.  California is the latest state to pass EPR law (S.B. 54) as of June 30, 2022.


14 other states are considering EPR programs as a policy tool for managing and reducing consumer waste. 

Decommissioning: A Better Way

Using machine readable identifiers already printed on pharmaceutical sellable units, DecomRx combines physical transformation and digital recordation in a batch-controlled process to create a decommissioning event record. 


These event records empower value beyond compliance use cases and facilitate EPR compliance, while post-process waste materials - HDPE, paper and glass - are weighed, logged and recycled.

Decommissioning serialized pharmaceutical sellable uniTS

Please reach us at info@decomrx.com if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Decommissioning is the physical transformation of serialized information printed on empty sellable units to render it unreadable and the digital recordation of the event.  We define event data to include GTIN, Serial Number, Lot, Expiration and other pertinent information.


Units collected are processed curbside or alternate location.  Dispensers receive an electronic receipt detailing serialized GTINs decommissioned.  Manufacturers receive serialized product information they originally commissioned to the unit.  Waste materials comprised of HDPE and paper are recycled using local-area providers.  Parties receive peace of mind that sensitive packaging materials have been securely removed from the supply chain and the environment while deriving monetary value from the process.


DecomRx is compiling results following 90-day field-testing of its first-generation decommissioning platform throughout Southeastern, PA.  We expect to publish excerpts of our findings in the coming weeks.  In the meantime, we are planing additional field tests in Southeastern, PA and perhaps Maine.  


We invite independent pharmacies to contact us to learn more.


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