The Vaccine Presentation and Packaging Advisory Group (VPPAG) is pushing for manufacturers to use of GS1 barcodes at all levels of vaccine packaging. This recommendation comes after an assessment of the viability for WHO vaccine pre-qualification, and does not extend to primary packaging. Many companies within DCVMN comply with Gavi and GS1 barcode standards. 

Fixing holes in the supply chain

GS1 is a non-profit involved in global business communication standard development, including maintaining the barcode which allows one to automatically gather data. GS1 regulations extend to Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) encoding. 

Stanford University

Regulating Organizations

Pagliusi, S., Jarrett, S., Hayman, B., Kreysa, U., Prasad, S. D., Reers, M., Hong Thai, P., Wu, K., Zhang, Y. T., Baek, Y. O., Kumar, A., Evtushenko, A., Jadhav, S., Meng, W., Dat, D. T., Huang, W., & Desai, S. (2020). Emerging manufacturers engagements in the COVID -19 vaccine research, development and supply. Vaccine, 38(34), 5418–5423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2020.06.022

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7287474/

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