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Hitachi White Paper Touts RFID Compatibility

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Typically, medical experimenters in item-level RFID tagging discovered early on that gamma radiation levels in typical sterilization protocols permanently damage, or at the very least, harmfully affect the data contained in RFID tags.

But according to Hitachi, its new Mu-chip RFID inlets are now withstand at least 500 kilogray (kGy) gamma ray exposure with no additional protective encapsulation.

The company’s latest white paper is full of details. [end] 

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