The MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) was set up by the UK Government in April 2003 from a merger of the Medicines Control Agency and the Medical Devices Agency. The MHRA is the governmental agency responsible for standards of safety, quality and performance. (more…)
Archive for October, 2009
Oct 7th
The Bar Code Celebrates its 57th Birthday!
7th October 2009 – is the anniversary of the first patent on the bar code. Inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver filed the patent on October 1949, and it was granted #2,612,994 on October 7, 1952. The original patent was for a system that would encode data in circles (a bulls eye pattern), so that it could be scanned in any direction and was first created for use on train carriages. (more…)
