What’s New with RFID Tags on Drugs?

Written by Carla Ballatan


RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) Tags were a good security measure to come up with – or is it really? Well,repparttar US Department of Defense came up with it and announced such matter even onrepparttar 113942 web through a post atrepparttar 113943 RFid Gazette (http://www.rfidgazette.org/2004/10/pentagon_implem.html) by Jimmy Atkinson on October 12, 2004.

According torepparttar 113944 news on October, 2004,repparttar 113945 US Department of Defense plans to use wireless tags to manage its healthcare supplies and supply chains. Further,repparttar 113946 Pentagon had assured thatrepparttar 113947 RFID tags will providerepparttar 113948 US military with ‘global transit visibility’. RFID should simplify moving, storing and distributing essential supplies such as drugs and medical consumables from bases inrepparttar 113949 United States to wherever US forces are in action aroundrepparttar 113950 world. This is an innovation to muchrepparttar 113951 growing active international role byrepparttar 113952 US military.

Allrepparttar 113953 contracts with suppliers that have been signed from October 1, 2004 are required already to featurerepparttar 113954 technology. Then duringrepparttar 113955 new year ofrepparttar 113956 present year, 2005,repparttar 113957 RFID tags were already in full implementation.

This Pentagon decision of wireless-tagging is a follow-up onrepparttar 113958 wireless-tagging project carried out byrepparttar 113959 IBM. There are no reports, however, of how effective and important,repparttar 113960 tag became forrepparttar 113961 IBM.

The History Of Perfume

Written by Cody Kahl


This article isn’t going to give you some magic formula forrepparttar world’s best fragrance; I am not even going to talk aboutrepparttar 113941 best perfumes onrepparttar 113942 market today. Perhaps even more interesting is a subject that few would think of, and even fewer know about.

In this article I will discussrepparttar 113943 origins of perfume and how it came to berepparttar 113944 industry that it is today.

Egyptians pioneeredrepparttar 113945 use of many things and fragrances are no exception. The Egyptians used perfume mainly for religious purposes, but medicine was another area that scented oils were used in.

Soonrepparttar 113946 use of perfume spread to Rome, Greece, and various Islamic cultures. Unfortunately withrepparttar 113947 fall ofrepparttar 113948 Roman Empire camerepparttar 113949 fall ofrepparttar 113950 fragrance trade for some time. It wasn’t until aroundrepparttar 113951 12th century that things started picking up again.

You may have heard before that perfume is very rooted in French Culture – This is true. In fact, you could almost say thatrepparttar 113952 real perfume industry began there. It all started inrepparttar 113953 17th century whenrepparttar 113954 guild of perfume makers was established. Perfumed gloves were very popular duringrepparttar 113955 17th century, and French kings would even have their court furnishings scented with fragrances.

A big breakthrough came inrepparttar 113956 18th century withrepparttar 113957 invention of Eau de Cologne. Yes there is an Eau de Cologne still available today, but it is much different than that ofrepparttar 113958 old Eau de Cologne. Inrepparttar 113959 18th century EDC was a mixture of lavender, bergamot, and neroli – And get this… It could be consumed! Yes that’s right; EDC inrepparttar 113960 18th century was not only a fragrance but a favorite beverage of Napoleon himself. In fact, Napoleon really helped make Eau de Cologne very popular inrepparttar 113961 18th century.

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