Latest pharma security label for syringes incorporates RFID to add digital safety features | 28-10-2025 |

Schreiner MediPharm, one of the leading developers and manufacturers of functional labels for the healthcare industry, showcased its new Cap-Lock Label with RFID functionality at this year’s CPHI in Frankfurt. The new Cap-Lock plus RFID is based on the established principle of the company’s Cap-Lock Label.

This special cap design has the same diameter as the syringe barrel, so the label wraps around the syringe and cap. A label-integrated irreversible first-opening indication is activated as soon as the cap is opened. The solution safeguards the integrity of the prefilled syringe until final use, thus replacing the usual blister pack by a sustainable alternative enabling considerable CO? reductions and cost savings, it claims. 

Additionally, due to optimized packaging and distribution processes as well as reduced space requirements during transportation and storage, it helps enhance efficiencies along the entire supply chain, according to the company. 

The new special feature of Cap-Lock plus RFID is its integrated RFID functionality. In addition to the analogue first-opening indication, the chip embedded in the label offers a digital first-opening indication. In hospital settings, this enables automated tracking of the integrity of each individual prefilled syringe—up until the medication is administered. Consequently, there is no need to manually check if the syringe has previously been opened, resulting in optimized and reliable processes for healthcare staff, it says. 

At the same time, clear identification on unit level is supported, which makes seamless tracking in the supply chain possible and facilitates automated inventory management in daily hospital settings, adds the company. Expired drugs are automatically detected and unused prefilled syringes can be returned to inventory in a reliable process. Additionally potential diversions and medication misuse can be monitored digitally. 

A special label construction reliably protects the integrated chip against mechanical stress and functional failure—even on high-speed dispensing systems in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Thus, the readability and functional reliability of the label-integrated RFID chip is guaranteed from production to final use, it states. Pharmaceutical companies are provided with a reliable solution avoiding additional costs due to production downtimes and waste rates, while product and patient safety is enhanced.

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