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On January 5, 2007 EPCglobal ratified the Pedigree Standard as an international standard that specifies an XML description of the life history of a product across an arbitrarily complex supply chain.

As of 2008, most states have enacted some sort of pedigree requirement and many have also required epedigree. However, the existing epedigree requirements amount to little more than requiring that pharmaceutical supply chain companies be able to provide reports in formats such as pdf, text files or spreadsheets.

The basic data elements of an original epedigree are:

- Lot - Potency - Expiration - National Drug Code and Electronic Product Code - Manufacturer - Distributor, Wholesaler or Pharmacy - Unique identifier of the salable unit

As the product moves down the supply chain, each company is required to carry forward all previous epedigree information. In this way, the final point of sale has the complete lineage of every unit.

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