ISO/TS 16791:2020

Health informatics — Requirements for international machine-readable coding of medicinal product package identifiers ISO/TS 16791:2020

Publication date:   Sep 29, 2020

Scope

This document provides guidelines on identification and labelling of medicinal products from the point of manufacture of packaged medicinal product to the point of dispensing the product.
This document outlines best practice for AIDC barcoding solutions for applications. Users can, however, consider the coding interoperability requirements for other AIDC technologies, e.g. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).