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UAE Tatmeen: pharmaceutical drug traceability.
What UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention Decree No. 73 of 2021 requires of Tatmeen participants, aggregation, and event reporting.
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention issued Decree No. 73 of 2021 on 14 June 2021. Tatmeen, the UAE traceability platform, went live on 13 December 2022.
What the decree requires
The article reads the decree as requiring pharmaceutical products in the UAE supply chain to be serialized and their movements reported to Tatmeen.
Who participates
Participants named in the article include manufacturers and marketing authorization holders, importers, distributors and wholesalers, and dispensers such as hospitals and pharmacies.
Before you report
Participants register with Tatmeen and prepare master data for their products and locations before reporting events.
Aggregation
The article describes aggregation, the parent and child relationship between units, cases, and pallets, as part of what must be reported so that a pack can be followed through each level of packaging.
Reporting
Supply-chain events such as commissioning, packing, unpacking, shipping, and receiving are reported to Tatmeen as they happen.
How the article describes CosmoTrace
The article describes CosmoTrace as offering serialization, aggregation, reporting, and tracking through nTrack, with integration to Tatmeen. nTrack has published that it completed Tatmeen technical testing.
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