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ISSUE 50 SEPTEMBER 2020 Aroa world-leading biologics with traceability Interview with Brian Ward MEDICINAL CANNABIS CONTROL 4 GS1 HEALTHCARE 15 YEARS ON 5 CIDER IN MORNINGSIDE 11
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GS1 COMMENT
Infostructure in the time of COVID-19
COVID-19 is horrendous for our economy, not to mention peoples’ health and
wellbeing. How critical, therefore, that all of us support the NZ COVID Tracer app for
stopping community transmission. And how critical also that GS1 location identifiers
can enable our national tracing system to work with accuracy and speed.
Every Kiwi is being urged, rightly, to advice and perhaps have a test yourself. to identify each of their locations. These
download and use NZ COVID Tracer App If you test positive, you are asked to and other forms of GS1 identifier are
on their smartphone. For their part, share your digital diary with the Ministry components of the “infostructure” which
businesses are urged to download, print – and so the process of notification and New Zealand, like other countries, is
and display a Ministry of Health-supplied tracing alerts can continue. building to facilitate e-Invoicing and
QR code for each of their locations. Each other forms of digital connection
of us visiting or working at any location Critically, the system collects no between companies, and between
will need to scan the code on arrival – information on you or your movements companies and government agencies.
and thereby, automatically record the until such time as you are alerted of
place, date and time in their phone’s possible infection, are tested and agree COVID-19 has no silver linings. But it is
“digital diary”. to share your digital diary. Obviously the giving us all another glimpse of how
act of scanning a QR code does not infostructure can truly serve a modern
The GS1 identifiers in question are Global signal your whereabouts to anyone else: economy, especially in times of great need.
Location Numbers (GLNs). Every NZ COVID Tracer does not automatically
business location – shop, restaurant, collect information from your diary. The Kia kaha.
office, warehouse and so on – can have a app has been designed with individual
unique GLN. That QR code posted at privacy as a critical consideration.
your favourite café or your workplace
door is simply a means of presenting its In all this, the importance of the GLN
GLN in a form that can be scanned for cannot be over-stated. How could any
matching process work efficiently Dr Peter Stevens
automatic creation of a new diary entry.
without some means of uniquely Chief Executive
So, NZ COVID Tracer works like this: You identifying every single location for
scan a QR code; the diary entry thus possible connection with anyone in New
created accurately identifies the place, Zealand? In fact “unique” means globally
date and time; whenever your unique: Your café or workplace can be
smartphone is online, it is enabled digitally distinguished from every other
through the app to receive notifications location in the world.
of all places and dates/times associated
Celebrating
50
with people who have recently been Of course GLNs are not new. They have
tested COVID positive (their movement been used for years by GS1 members for
details having been collected by health multiple traceability and business editions
officials after diagnosis); the
notifications are “silent” (you do not see
management purposes, and they are the
foundation of the New Zealand Business
of SCAN
them) but the app will alert you to Number (NZBN) scheme. Every NZBN is since 2001
matches in place and time that do occur drawn from a massive block of GLNs
between you and a COVID-positive supplied by GS1 to the Government
person; and in response to any match years ago, and businesses can now
alert, you are advised to seek medical receive their own sets of serialised GLNs
GS1 New Zealand sadly notes the passing in June of Paul Cressey, formerly a long time member of our
Board. Paul, a pharmacist by profession, made a huge contribution to the New Zealand Healthcare
sector in various roles throughout this career. He was deputy Chair of the Counties Manukau District
Health Board for many years, and an appointee to official working groups on issues that encompassed
leadership and governance, and health information standards. Paul was a Ministerial appointee to the
GS1 Board from 2007 to 2016. He was a tremendous advocate for GS1 Standards and data quality in the
Healthcare sector, and a highly valued colleague and friend to GS1 Board members and staff.
Our deepest sympathies go to Paul’s wife, Sheryn and their family.
ISSUE 50 3
MEMBER PROFILE
QSafe – digital innovation for
control of medicinal cannabis
Medicinal cannabis involves pharmaceutical innovation with potentially huge therapeutic benefits. And its arrival
in New Zealand has spurred digital innovation hugely beneficial to control of this particularly sensitive form of
medicine. Eqalis Pharmaceuticals has created a smart, secure system for the in-pharmacy storage and dispensing
of its cannabinoid products – and not surprisingly, the use of GS1 identifiers is an integral part of the system.
Eqalis is one of the first companies to Based in the Bay of Plenty, it is developing The QSafe system enables cannabinoid
be licensed for research, production, formulations to treat a variety of medicines to be held in community
processing and supply of cannabinoid conditions including chronic and palliative pharmacies, ready for dispensing on
medicines under the Misuse of Drugs pain, epilepsy, spascity, anxiety and receipt of an e-prescription through the
(Medicinal Cannabis) Regulations 2019. depression. Subject to the satisfactory NZePS health information exchange.
It has invented QSafe to facilitate the completion of clinical trials, Eqalis Each QSafe interfaces with the
future availability of these medicines to intends to register new products with computer system in that pharmacy and
patients as cheaply as possible, with Medsafe in coming years. “It is early enables the automatic recording of
automation of all necessary information days in development of the full details required under section 29:
recording and exchange. QSafe is a spectrum of formulations and their Information on medicines received, held
temperature-controlled storage safe, delivery to patients, and we believe and dispensed is captured and shared,
connected to the New Zealand potential therapeutic benefits are with pharmacists freed from their
ePrescription Service (NZePS) and tremendous,” says Elizabeth Plant, Eqalis traditional manual tasks of updating a
enabled for the scanning of products as Chief Medical Officer. controlled drug register.
they are moved in and out.
New Zealand’s Medicinal Cannabis Each bottle of medicine will be labelled
Eqalis is committed to helping build a Scheme took effect from 1 April this with a barcoded GS1 GTIN (global trade
medicinal cannabis industry in this year after legislative change in 2018. item number) by the manufacturer, this
country from the ground up, drawing on The regulations now in place make such then automatically scanned on its way
local and international horticultural and medicines, with THC as their active into and out of the safe. Internally, there
pharmaceutical expertise. The company’s ingredient, prescriptible but subject to is an inventory interface for real-time
vision is “to create and produce the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 and monitoring of QSafe contents and when
outstanding medicinal cannabis deemed “high involvement” products products are dispensed, the pharmacy’s
products, and positively impact the under s29 of the Medicines Act 1981. system will automatically record this
health and lives of New Zealanders”. They are subject to tight restrictions on transaction against patient and
access and supply. To date, prescription records.
New Zealand has only one registered
Ms Plant says QSafe leverages the
cannabinoid medicine, the UK-
NZePS which is now available in all
manufactured Sativex for treatment of
community pharmacies and in use by
symptoms associated with multiple
an increasing number of general
sclerosis. Currently pharmacies order
practitioners. “NZePS is really critical to
Sativex through a wholesaler whenever
the efficient operation of QSafe and
a prescription is received.
since the COVID-19 lockdown in March,
we have all seen a rapid increase in
Ms Plant says the QSafe system will remove
electronic e-prescribing by GPs which is
bureaucracy, cost and time from the
a very good thing.”
prescription and supply of all cannabinoid
medicines. “These are expensive Over time, Eqalis will make QSafe
medicines and patients need to have increasingly available to community
access to them as cheaply as possible.” pharmacies for use with other controlled
drugs alongside a growing range of
Medsafe has already approved the concept Eqalis products.
of QSafe, subject to final audit. It has
been invented by Ms Plant and her
team at Eqalis. She is a former President
of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical
Society and has a 20 year-involvement
with developing electronic medication For more information, see
management systems. www.eqalis.co.nz
4 SEPTEMBER 2020
HEALTHCARE
Global milestones
GS1 Healthcare takes stock over the 15 years
of progress with Standards 2006 GS1 Global signs memorandums of
understanding with two other
standards development organisations
Patient safety emerged as a driver for continued development of GS1 (SDOs) – HL7 and ICCBBA. Eucomed
Standards back in 2005 – and this year, the GS1 Healthcare position paper recommending
implementation of GS1 published.
community is looking back at progress made around the world since
then. During the 15 years, GS1 New Zealand has been actively 2007
GS1 Healthcare is formed as a global
user group (HUG). In Australia,
engaged in this area of standards development and in efforts for
the National E-Health Transition
greater standards implementation in our own Healthcare system. Authority (NEHTA) commits to
using GS1 Standards.
GS1 Healthcare is a global network of Ms Kreysa says that today GS1
more than 130 global GS1 members Healthcare is focused mainly on
2010 Turkey takes a lead in launching
including pharmaceutical and medical Standards implementation, in medicine
a track and trace system for
device manufacturers, distributors/ and device supply chains and in
pharmaceuticals using GS1
wholesalers, logistics & solution Healthcare systems country-by-country.
Standards commences. United
providers, and Healthcare States Healthcare organisations
administration bodies like hospitals. Brussels-based Ms Kreysa has visited
collectively confirm their support
Healthcare Senior Vice President Ulrike New Zealand several times, and is very
for GLN 2010 Sunrise and GTIN 2012
Kreysa recently told SCAN that the familiar with our Healthcare sector and
Sunrise.
Standards development which was the relatively early government interest
necessary to meet the specific needs (2007) in exploring the greater use of
GS1 Standards here. “Implementation 2012 In the US, GS1 becomes the first
of the Healthcare sector across the accredited UDI (unique device
world has now largely been completed. has not gone as fast as we would have
identification) issuing agency
liked to have seen (in New Zealand)
The GS1 Global Trade Item Numbers under the FDA’s new UDI rule.
but it does take time to make changes
(GTINs) for product identification and The European Union’s Falsified
in Healthcare, especially in hospitals,” Medicines Directive is released.
all other basic components of the GS1 Ms Kreysa says. “We readily acknowledge
System, have always been applicable that GS1 Standards implementation is
to Healthcare in a modern economy. 2014 Healthcare GTINs in the GDSN
not easy anywhere, but it provides so
The work since 2005 has been to set (global data synchronisation
many benefits when achieved.”
additional, more detailed Standards for
network) break through the 1 million
Globally, she says, the motivation mark after 33% growth in one year.
how the GS1 System should be used in
The UK Department of Health
Healthcare. This is in response to the among members of the GS1 Healthcare
eProcurement strategy mandates
need for more detailed and precise network to see patient safety improved
the use of GS1 standards across the
identification and description of through Standards development and
National Health Service.
medicines and medical devices for implementation is as strong in 2020 as
enhanced data sharing and traceability. it was in 2005.
2015 World Health Organisation declares
that vaccine labelling should include
a barcode that “should conform to
New Zealand’s Healthcare system has seen a gradual take up of GS1 Standards, GS1 Standards”.
especially in context of medical products purchasing and management. District
Health Boards (DHBs) and central government agencies have been moving towards The Asia Pacific Economic
2017
the systematic use of GTINs and digitalised master data on medicines and medical Cooperation (APEC) Roadmap
devices in their procurement and inventory management activities. on supply chain integrity and
drug safety is released including
In 2020, work has been underway to provide the public Healthcare system with a
reference to GS1 Standards.
national product catalogue and this initially will encompass medical devices on
which GS1 Standards are foundational. The new NZ Health System Catalogue will be
2019 In Africa, 25 Healthcare regulatory
populated by suppliers, and used by all DHBs, NZ Health Partnerships and
agencies from across the continent
PHARMAC for their purchasing, distribution and use of devices. In the private sector,
sign a “traceability call to action”. In
Southern Cross Hospitals have progressed to the stage of making extensive use of
Europe, GS1 is designated as the UDI
the GS1 Standards in their purchasing and procurement, and of beginning to use
issuing entity for the EU MDR/IVDR.
barcode scanning to track items in some of its hospitals.
With all the foundational work undertaken in the past 15 years, GS1 is confident that 2020 GS1 Healthcare participates for the
New Zealand will move ahead to secure more of the advantages of standardised first time in the World Economic
data in the Healthcare system from 2020 onward. Last year, the Ministry of Health Forum in Davos. Today, more than 4
took the important step of appointing its Deputy Director General – Data and Digital million Healthcare GTINs are stored
and automatically updated in the
Shayne Hunter to the GS1 New Zealand Board.
GDSN.
ISSUE 50 5
MEMBER PROFILE
Consumers are going green
– and so is McPherson’s
Green consumption – it’s become a real thing with Kiwis. Increasingly,
they demand products that don’t have toxic ingredients and packaging
that is compostable, recyclable or re-usable. McPherson’s Consumer
Products has positioned itself as a leader among companies who have
joined the sustainability trend in fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG).
McPherson’s in New Zealand – like its information which consumers want
much larger Australian parent – is when assessing the sustainability and
committed to making its wide range of environmental footprint of specific
personal care, beauty and household products. Kylie says McPherson’s is
products more environmentally friendly making a big effort to support its
and more acceptable to green-minded products with more consumer
consumers. And making even greater information in the “green space”,
use of GS1 standards to capture and especially as the company expands its
share information on products is a presence in New Zealand grocery with
critical enabler in this quest. new ranging of Multix Greener and
Across both countries, and into Asia, Recycled brands in Foodstuffs and
McPherson’s markets and distributes Countdown supermarkets.
dozens of brands, including Manicare,
The Multix Greener range aims to make
Lady Jayne, Dr LeWinn’s, A’kin, Glam by
it easy to select products that perform
Manicare, Swisspers, Moosehead,
Maseur and Multix. In Australia, the well while having a reduced impact on
business has positioned itself at the the environment. Multix Greener 100% and ReuseMe range of products, all
forefront of the government and private Recycled Alfoil is made from recycled manufactured using recycled,
sector moves to abolish single-use material, while Multix Greener Brown compostable or re-useable materials.
packaging and to shift the market away Bake Paper is unbleached and chlorine “There are so many products out there
from products with a heavy free. The Greener range also covers and a lot of confusion, which is why we
environmental footprint. compostable kitchen tidy bags made focus on education on various
from corn starch, which are technologies. For example, the benefits
In New Zealand, McPherson’s Head of biodegradable and can even be eaten
Sales, Kylie Pistorius, says the FMCG of our Recycled bags come not just
by garden worms. The bags are from the fact that using recycled plastic
sector seems to be moving in the same
designed to encourage a diversion of reduces landfill waste but that it also
direction even faster, especially since the
food scraps from landfill, and eventual reduces petroleum consumption and
outlawing of single-use plastic bags in
methane emissions, into composting CO2 emissions”.
supermarkets in 2018, and Kiwi consumers
and soil replenishment.
are changing their expectations. “There’s
Kylie notes consumer queries about the
a big consumer focus on sustainability GS1 support level of recycled plastic being used
and people are definitely willing to pay
Kylie credits the GS1 team for providing - 80% rather than 90 or 100%. “Having
more for sustainable products even when
excellent hands-on support for reviewed many possible product
there is a cheaper alternative on a
McPherson’s push into grocery and the formulations, we managed to strike a
nearby shelf.”
associated need for comprehensive balance between percentage of
The same is suggested in research product master data that could be recycled content and overall amount of
undertaken for the Sustainable Business uploaded to GS1’s National Product resin used, while keeping the bag
Council last year. A big consumer Catalogue, and ultimately shared with strong and reliable,” she says. “To make
survey indicated that a big majority consumers. Across the Swisspers, Lady a bag with a higher recycled content
(87%) of Kiwis care about sustainability Jayne and A’Kin brands. supported by you have to make it much thicker and
and for more than half, purchasing McPherson’s on this side of the Tasman, that uses much more raw material. We
decisions at the supermarket and other there is an accelerated programme to aim to be truly sustainable.”
big retail outlets are influenced by the lift data quality and availability.
specific sustainability attributes.
She says the company has made most
Consumer information headway with its bag, wrap and foil
However, the survey also highlighted products for preparing and storing
For more information, see
“green hush” – the tendency of food, and for rubbish disposal. These www.mcphersons.co.nz
New Zealand businesses to bury the include the Multix Recycled, Greener
6 SEPTEMBER
JUNE 2020
2018
GS1 NEWS
GS1 supports supermarkets’ drive into digital B2C
GS1 New Zealand has created invaluable digital asset repositories for use in B2C (business-to-consumer)
commerce over recent years – and now, we are making those repositories even more accessible to
supermarket groups Countdown and Foodstuffs for their online offerings.
Key internal systems of Countdown and data for use by online websites and “The two data sets are the retailer’s
Foodstuffs have been directly connected retailer analytics – as well as supporting go-to resources for customer-facing
to GS1’s On Pack Database and GS1’s the B2B activities of member product information in New Zealand.
image database MediaLibrary using companies like procurement and Our investment in APIs supports
purpose-built APIs (Application supply chain management. Countdown’s continued improvements
Programming Interfaces). The APIs in its online shopping experience and
make any image asset or data record in GS1’s On Pack Database holds consumer the launch of Countdown’s online
the databases, or repositories, information collected from product pharmacy, as well as the rollout of
available for distribution immediately packaging, while MediaLibrary holds high online shopping across the Foodstuffs
they are uploaded. quality photographs of products banners nationally.”
(64,000 images currently available).
GS1 Chief Operating Officer, Richard
Manaton says the databases and the “The growth in the number of products
APIs are part of GS1’s steady evolution in these two databases clearly
into support for B2C commerce – and demonstrates that GS1 members are
in particular, use of the GTIN as the key appreciating that their end consumers
identifier to then generate and validate need rich and accurate content to help
a complete payload of consumer-facing purchasing decisions,” says Richard.
Caroline James - putting
empathy into engagement
Being inquisitive and not afraid to ask for shipment to market accompanied by At GS1, she has specialised in supporting
questions are just two of Caroline James’ all necessary data on fish type, catch brand owners and distributors in their
great attributes as a GS1 Customer location and time, and so on. most efficient use of GS1’s ProductFlow
Engagement Manager. She also brings to for launching products to market. Often,
the role a wealth of knowledge and Caroline joined GS1 in September 2018, says Caroline, members are unaware of
experience from the hardware having previously been a National how easy and cost effective it can be for
and FMCG sectors. Contracts Manager for Foodstuffs’ them to simply send a physical product
wholesaling business in both islands. The into GS1, and have us assemble all the
Based in Auckland, Caroline looks after job involved running multi-supplier master data and images required, and to
most of GS1’s North Island members in responses to huge tenders from thereafter upload to the National
these sectors, about 700 companies in government agencies, and accommodation, Product Catalogue in readiness for
all. “I just love my job. Going out to our launch to all retail outlets at the right
catering and healthcare providers. Over
members and getting to understand time. “My own work history has given
the years, Caroline’s CV has come to read
their products and processes … being me a lot of ability to empathise with our
like a who’s who of consumer products
inquisitive and observant, and asking members’ problems and to show them in
companies, names including Dominion
questions so that we are really, really very practical ways how using GS1
Breweries, Black & Decker, Nestle and
helping them.” services can be the answer … sometimes
Mother Earth. Her roles have spanned
it’s about helping people to understand
On one recent assignment, for example, accounts payable, customer service, key
and solve an issue they didn’t even know
she helped a Chatham Islands’ fishing account management, sales management
they had.”
company create its own system for and marketing. Along the way, Caroline
GS1-128 barcode labelling of catch while earned a marketing and communications
still at sea, as the fresh product was being degree from Massey University and
To connect with Caroline James, email
packed and chilled on the trawler’s hold. launched her own small business … and caroline.james@gs1nz.org
Back at port, each pallet comes off ready yes, she’s also been raising a family.
ISSUE 50 7
FEATURE INTERVIEW
Aroa Biosurgery –
world-leading in medical biologics
and product integrity
New Zealand biotechnology is quietly on the rise. And Aroa Biosurgery is at the forefront – a world-class
regenerative medicine company based on a uniquely Kiwi combination of sheep, molecular biology and
entrepreneurship. Aroa develops and manufactures products that vastly improve post-operative healing in
humans, using tissue taken from sheep forestomaches and applying the company’s proprietary technology.
Company founder Brian Ward is realising his vision to supply the world with high quality, low cost materials for
tissue regeneration – all processed at Aroa’s plant in Mangere, Auckland. So far, five FDA1 - approved products
are being supplied to 600 hospitals across America and for Aroa, that’s just the beginning. The company
recently raised new capital to fund growth and is now listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Brian Ward spoke with SCAN
about Aroa’s future and its
technology. Since 2008, the
entrepreneurial veterinary
surgeon has built Aroa into a
global business – and he knows
the critical importance of unique
identification, and complete
trustworthiness in data sharing
and traceability when supplying
small, highly sensitive products
into international supply chains.
Brian’s background includes clinical practice, and management experience in medical technology businesses
internationally. Before forming Aroa, he managed investments into New Zealand technology companies for the
Foundation for Research Science and Technology, and was founding Chief Executive of industry organisation NZBIO.
Brian is a graduate of Massey University with a Bachelor’s degree in Veterinary Science, a Member of the Royal
College of Veterinary Surgeons (UK), and holds a Masters degree in Business Administration (with distinction).
Aroa is now well established. What product development, manufacturing, biologic that we can produce at scale
comes next? and regulatory and corporate functions and at lower cost … it’s opening the
We think we can build a world-leading as well as a US-based sales team. field up for a much wider range of
regenerative medicine company from applications and patients.
Of course we’re not the first to produce
the great platform we’ve now put in
biological materials for healing but they We expect to launch a new product
place. We’re already commercial in the
have tended to be incredibility pretty much every year over the next
United States with a broad portfolio of
expensive and so limited to a very small three years and then to broaden the
products … we have all the capabilities
number of patients. We’ve changed the range out over time. Our strategy has
you’d expect to see in a vertically-
whole dynamic with an outstanding two channels, one through our
integrated med-tech business including
1 Food & Drug Administration in the US
8 SEPTEMBER 2020
FEATURE INTERVIEW
“Compared with other countries
New Zealand traceability is at a
different level, in our view.”
- Brian Ward
relationship with TELA Bio2 in the US large scale and relatively low cost and that is really simple to products that are
who we’ve licenced to sell our products we have a lot of latitude in how we much more complex for use in high-risk
for breast construction and hernia commercialise our products.. procedures, so there’s even more
repair. The other channel is our portfolio diligence in the regulatory process. A
in the fields of wound and soft tissue How many Aroa products now in lot of our clinical work is done in the
reconstruction. Our focus overall is on the US? US, our products are now being used in
producing very high-quality material that Five commercial products to date, 600 hospitals and growing.
performs well and on making it more starting with two versions of our initial
accessible to more patients. Endoform Dermal Template product for Where did this all start for you?
use in wound healing. We also have a It was curiosity really. I spent time in
At this stage we have regulatory access
product for complex hernia repair clinical practice, and in pharma and
to sell in 37 countries, including the
called OviTex and now in its very early med-tech companies. I was always
European block. We are early into
commercialisation phase, there’s OviTex intrigued about devices and life science
selling there. Germany is going well for
PRS for soft tissue reconstruction, business. I could see that this field was
us and so is Austria. It’s early in the
predominantly for breast reconstruction exciting and developing. I got really
process with countries in the Middle
post mastectomy. More recently, we curious about it and got out my old
East and Asia. Here in New Zealand, we
have launched Myriad, which is a soft anatomy books and worked with a
have several early-stage work streams
tissue regeneration product for both couple of universities. I went through
and we employed a sales specialist to
dermal and implantable use. We have this process of scoping possibilities and
progress these late in 2019. We have a
an application with the FDA at the reducing them down to something that
lot in front of us in the US and our share
moment and hoping that product will looked like it could be commercially
offering document estimate of $US2.5
be cleared for launch early next year. viable. I’m not really a scientist but
billion market potential in the US is
knew enough to integrate knowledge
conservative. Certainly we have Each one must be independently
from various sources and come up with
competitors but as I see it, the assessed and the time required
things that I thought would work.
performance of Aroa material is depends on the complexity of the
phenomenal in its own right. We are product and the risks around its use.
very unique in our ability to produce at We have progressed from something
2 TELA Bio Inc is a Pennsylvania-based medical technology company specialising in the design,
development and marketing of tissue reinforcement materials
ISSUE 50 9
FEATURE INTERVIEW
And is there something special the origins of the material we are using That is all carried out here, in
about tissue from New Zealand sheep? and have confidence in its integrity. Mangere?
There absolutely is. First, we have an Compared with other countries New
Yes, our large-scale operation is here.
abundant source and most of the raw Zealand traceability is at a different
Around one third of the space is tissue
tissue we want comes from mature level, in our view.
processing with the other two thirds
sheep which have intrinsic qualities being down-stream fabrication, freeze
quite different from other animals. In drying and packaging. All in an
fact our intellectual property covers all extremely clean environment with the
animals. We could take tissue from people suited and masked. Our quality
cows or goats but sheep make the control of air, people, microbial risks
best sense. New Zealand has a great and so on must be top-end. We
way of farming sheep … not intensive, package and price depending on the
the animal health status is very good product, starting with our Endroform,
and with none of the infectious high-volume product that sells for
diseases like CJD that other countries around $US110 per box of 10 pieces that
have, or have had. So, we can have will be used with diabetic and venous
source material that has been farmed ulcer wounds. Products range from
in a way which is very natural and $US3,000-15,000 per item, for use in
wholesome. This country can easily hernia operations where healing in the
jump a lot of the regulatory hurdles patient’s midline is a much more
that others struggle with. For one complex process.
thing, we have fantastic traceability
around livestock, enabling us to know On site here, we have scientists and
engineers in a product development
group. A lot are Kiwis who’ve come
Aroa Biosurgery products are back from other parts of the world …
ultra-thin layers of animal tissue we also have people who are intrigued
that have been purified and by New Zealand as a country for many
processed into a form of sterile reasons and want to bring their skills
Aroa takes raw material from two
matrix biological scaffolding. here. We have a strategy of wanting to
small abattoirs, arriving here in
Once in or on a patient’s body, talk with anyone who’s worked in med
batches several times a week. We use
they serve as an “extracellular tech around the world, pretty much as
a tiny fraction of what would be
scaffold” which supports soon as they come off the plane. And
available. When we first started, we
natural healing processes: The we have actively recruited people from
had our own in-house operation for
patient’s own cells migrate all sorts of background. We have a real
isolating the tissue needed from other
into the scaffold, forming new mix of people, 120 here in New Zealand
layers of muscle in the sheep rumen
tissue and eventually replacing and 30 in the US.
and now they (the meat companies)
the animal material altogether. have dedicated rooms in their facilities
There are other matrix-type Big question – will you stay in
to do some of that work for us. New Zealand?
healing technologies that use
synthetic materials or human Yes, from a manufacturing perspective
cadaver-based tissue. But Processing is critically important. We it doesn’t make any sense to be based
Brian Ward found nothing have a very gentle process that elsewhere. We have an excellent
matches tissue from the sheep removes the cells and cell contents but development team here that has built
forestomach, or rumen, leaves behind the biological up a lot of expertise, and we are only
because of its particular composition of the core material, the going to add to that. Over time we will
structure and molecular structure of which is very important. have sales operations in different parts
composition. Clinical uses of There’s a whole network of collagen of the world. Fisher & Paykel has
Aroa products to date have fibres which are the main part, but also proven that you can develop successful
meant some patients avoiding 151 other molecules adhering to those global companies from New Zealand.
long, painful treatment of fibres and all of these have really A lot depends on investors of course
seemingly unhealable wounds important functions in healing. We do as most of our capital has come from
and even limb amputation. not want to damage the structure of onshore so far although we are now
Aroa launched initially with the fibres or loose molecules. Together publicly traded on the ASX. I guess
Endoform in 2013 through US they are similar enough to the human things can change over time.
healthcare products company body not to be antigenic, not to cause
Hollister Inc. Distribution an immune response. The composition What feedback on your technology
rights in the US were bought and use of Aroa products are patented so far?
back by Aroa in 2018. but there’s also lot of knowledge and We’ve had some fantastic data on
intellectual property around efficacy with OviTex. TELA Bio is
processing of the raw materials. running a 100-patient study in which
10 SEPTEMBER 2020FEATURE INTERVIEW
the first 20 have completed 24 months from us in San Diego to a national being transported and stored, and always
since surgery and the re-occurrence rate medical distributor, and from there is to a arrive at the hospital in good shape.
has been zero! Typically that rate would be hospital. The codes will be scanned There’s a lot of data around that, and
10-30% … situations where the patient everywhere. Code verification is part of really, everything in this business has to
needs to re-operated on because of our package testing process and we have be traceable. There’s an audit trail for
problems with wound healing and the to be sure that they can be read on the each piece of material used in our
surgery they require gets more equipment being used by everyone process and we are subject to annual
complicated each time. involved. Currently we are making audit and to the prospect of random
inspection where someone representing
the FDA or a European notified body can
walk in here tomorrow and say ‘tell me
about this package here’. This is the
nature of our industry and that’s why it
takes a long time to get in. The products
themselves do not need temperature
control. They are shelf stable in their
individual sterile pouches for 2-3 years.
How big a problem is COVID-19?
Almost all our sales at this stage are in the
US and from the end of March, elective
procedures there were being postponed
and wound centres were being closed.
That had an impact on us for sure in April.
Now we see them re-opening with public
health measures in place. Hospitals are
keen to get their elective surgery up and
going, although throughput will be lower
because of the all the extra procedures. I
don’t think we will get back to normal
sales volumes before the end of the year.
But obviously people will always need
treatment and we do predict some sort of
upswing because patients can only be
delayed for a certain amount of time.
Each item of product is critically changes to the coding on our packets for Healthcare is one of those things that
important at the point of clinical use. How compliance with new requirements under people and society will always spend on.
do you ensure its identity and traceability? the FDA’s unique device identification
We can tell you about every batch of (UDI) scheme, For more information, see
product, including which abattoir the core www.aroabio.com
tissue came from and from which farm if To sell in the US, we must prove the
we need to. All that information exists integrity of our packaging and that it can Images supplied by MAS
within our system or at the abattoirs. withstand a lot of mistreatment when www.mas.co.nz
They know what days animals were
received and killed. We don’t have
relationships with farmers ourselves but
who knows in future, we certainly have a
particular profile of the animal that is best
for our purposes.
Every batch of shipped product has
unique (GS1-based) identifiers and when
a barcoded carton is shipped, we can
access data on all the raw materials that
went into that batch and also where the
units of product are now located. Cartons
are scanned by us here in Mangere and
when they are being received into our
distribution base in San Diego, and again
thereafter depending on the product and
the particular supply chain. It could go
ISSUE 50 11GS1 NEWS
Digital twins now populating the
world of online shopping
New Zealand’s boom in online shopping GS1 launched On Pack in 2016 as a GS1 makes the data available to anyone
– fuelled by COVID-19 social distancing service option for GS1 members and wanting to know more about a particular
– is now being reflected in very high others who are using ProductFlow to product through the FoodEye mobile
demand for GS1’s On Pack Data support the introduction of new phone app, downloadable free of charge
Collection service. products, or updating of existing from www.gs1nz.org/foodeye. FoodEye
products, to the consumer marketplace is especially useful to consumers while
More than 1,000 products are going they are shopping (online or offline), and
through Foodstuffs and Countdown, and
through On Pack each month, each it includes a product barcode scanning
other retailers. GS1’s ProductFlow
product coming out with an online function for ease of access to the
encompasses barcode verification, high
version of all the consumer facing information while in a store.
quality images to retailer specifications
information on its packaging. When
and verification of product master data
accompanied by high quality The digitised data is also sent directly to
to the National Product Catalogue (NPC)
photographs this, in effect, creates a Countdown and Foodstuffs to match up
from where it can be accessed at any
“digital twin”. with the rest of the products data in their
time by the grocery groups and others. businesses (see page 7). The data can
On Pack is the GS1 service for collecting also be migrated into the NPC for a
in digital form all the information on a Take-up of On Pack had been steady until
broader range of uses online, such as
product’s packaging, and then storing this year’s surge. Today, the database
marketing and retailing websites, but
this newly-born digital twin where it can holds information on 40,000 products
also for the internal processes of companies.
be used by product suppliers, retailers and growing – all food and grocery
In readiness for uploading to the NPC,
and shoppers in the online world. products with an increasing number in
the product information (ingredients
the health and body care categories.
lists, claims etc) will need to conform to
New Zealanders have certainly
Each database entry has product data in GS1 Standard formats and this often
embraced the latter in 2020, thanks to
the same format as seen on the product requires some translation from the form
the March-May COVID-19 lockdown
packaging. These include lists of in which the information is originally
period and new online buying habits
ingredients, nutritional information, any presented on the label, packet or can.
which thousands more people have
obviously acquired. The most recent allergen warnings, dosage information,
statistics for the nation’s online shopping marketing statements, and any claims
show the amount spent on domestic and endorsements about the product:
websites during June was 33.8% higher Each product will have any combination
than the comparable sum for June 20191. of such information. For more information, see
www.gs1nz.org/services
1 “The New Zealand Online Retail sales Report”, by Marketview, Verisk Financial .
Putting spin on your product…
High quality images of your product are extremely important
to any supplier or retailer wanting their business to be truly
online. Now they can go further – spin the product image on
screen for even greater appeal to the customer.
GS1 offers 360º photos for a more memorable, dynamic
presentation of any product on a website. The product is
viewed from all sides as the image literally spins on the screen
and the viewer as the option of freezing on any aspect.
GS1 has invested in state-of-the-art orthographic cameras
for this form of dynamic image creation – all part of what we
can do to help GS1 members create and manage the digital
assets that are important in the online world.
12 SEPTEMBER 2020MEMBER PROFILE
Sweet as!
Speciality
honeys
beyond
manuka
Everyone knows manuka
honey is something special.
But what about avocado or
pohutukawa honeys? The
aptly-named Simon
Sweetingham is out to
convince fellow Kiwis that
these, in their raw forms, can
be just as exciting on the
palate and potentially as
health-enhancing as manuka.
Simon has recently launched four speciality He sees the new flavours, and whatever New Zealand and consumer product
honeys – avocado, pohutukawa, clover particular health attributes they might sales have given Simon a detailed
and wildflower – under his new become associated with, as additions to knowledge of the country and of
‘Beebro” brand, with a strong emphasis manuka honey – that liquid gold which retailing, and a nationwide network of
on their natural New Zealand origins has captured consumers here and around friends and contacts.
and their raw, minimally-processed the world in recent decades. “Manuka
form. “They’re products for health- honey is obviously wonderful …I’m “All our products are pure, natural and
conscious foodies … people who love wanting to explore gaps in the market.” full of flavours from flowers that grow
honey and are ready for some new, in beautiful parts of the country.”
more edgy flavours,” says Simon. In fact, Simon also sells manuka-based
product under the beekeeper-owned And the new brand name? “Beebro just
Based in Auckland’s eastern suburbs, brand, “Onuku”, which is promoted on rolls off the tongue and its distinctively
Simon sources his honey from its high UMF (unique manuka factor) New Zealand where, of course, we also
beekeepers around the upper North rating and central North Island provenance. like to refer to good stuff as ‘sweet as’.
Island, and has it packaged and labelled Beebro and its new products have Couldn’t be more appropriate for our
(mainly in glass jars) in contracted grown out of a honey broking business, great honeys.”
commercial kitchens with as little which Simon launched in 2017, first at
disturbance to its natural state as the Howick Village Market. He has long
possible. No creaming, no special since become an effective channel-to-
temperature control processes and a market, including online, for Onuku and
long (four-year) shelf life. The other non-manuka brands “Cold Fern”
beautifully-represented Beebro range and “Bee My Honey”.
can be purchased online and through
an expanding range of health and “There are a lot of struggling
speciality food shops in the Auckland beekeepers out there. They need
region. Simon is gearing up also to someone to bundle their honey and to
supply the supermarket sector (and market it for them,” says Simon. And he
is just the entrepreneur needed! For more information, see
obviously, Beebro’s GS1 membership www.beebro.co.nz
will support that next step. Previous careers in tour guiding around
ISSUE 46 13GS1 NEWS
Barcodes
in graphic design
– 2020 winners
Raise The Bar, GS1’s annual barcode design competition for students at the Te Kahui Auaha campus of WelTec
and Witireia polytechnics has this year been won by Gracy Veerasamy with a clever art nouveau-inspired
label design for a brand of tea. Gracy’s design seamlessly integrates the barcode into graphics which are
colourful, dynamic and feature tea leaf shapes: The barcode looks very much part of the overall design.
Gracy Veerasamy - First Place Katherine Pei Pei - Second Place
Second prize has gone to to see the barcode as a potential design can add to it in ways that will be
Katherine Pei Pei for a design that feature rather than as a compliance pleasing to the eye without interfering
merged the barcode into the visual requirement that clashes with the look with the scanning performance. Every
representation of a portafilter (the part and feel they try to achieve. year we see some wonderful ideas from
of an espresso machine that holds the the students and it’s encouraging to
grounds when coffee is being made). GS1 Quality Service Manager, Owen think that the old ideas of barcodes as
Dance has been involved with the just black and white rectangles are
The competition was introduced in competition since its inception. slowly being overcome.”
2009 to encourage design students to “Designers can make or break a
learn the technicalities of barcode barcode from the outset,” he says. “So
design and how to incorporate we launched this competition to teach
barcodes into packaging graphics them what a correct and workable
harmoniously. Students are encouraged barcode should look like and how they
14 SEPTEMBER 2020MEMBER PROFILE
Drinkers awake to a new
brew from Morningside
For this 28-year-old theology graduate
with early work experience in food and
hospitality, cider was a discovery in
Move aside craft beer, there’s a new beverage on the block for people Washington State (USA) where he and
friends stumbled across a “cool little
who love different flavours while they socialise. Apple cider can have all cider bar” offering 50 different varieties.
the taste, freshness and originality of craft beer, especially in the hands Tim brought the idea home. “A wine
of a boutique cider master like Tim Shallard of Morningcider. maker gave me some tips and we
ended up with a good and easy system
The Morningcider brand has taken its frequented by locals and by thousands for making really interesting ciders.”
place on New World liquor shelves of rugby fans on their way to Eden Park
around the country in 2020 as Tim and which is only a block away.) The ideas keep coming and next year,
his partners expand the cider brewing Morningcider will include its first batch
and hospitality business they launched Also, there’s no big rivalry with craft produced from apples grown in
five years ago in Auckland’s inner-west Morningside itself. In 2019 Tim bought
beer. Tim readily admits that
area of Morningside. Cans of 200 trees (mostly the vintage kingston
Morningcider is largely inspired by the
Morningcider proudly display the funky black variety) and distributed them to
joy that craft brewers have brought to
street art painted on buildings nearby, customers for planting in their
beer – and he makes most of his cider
and of course GS1 barcodes and GTINs. backyards. “We can’t afford to
using the facilities and services of
establish our own orchard in central
“We want to create fun and interesting Urbanaut Brewing Company, in
Auckland and this is the next best
flavours that people can really enjoy Kingsland. It takes two weeks to brew thing,” he says.
and talk about,” says Tim. So far in most of the ciders, starting with
2020 there have been over 30, braeburn and granny smith apples from So there could be a Morningcider
including some “leafy” and “smokey” the Hawkes Bay, although Tim also does “Drink Local Apples” brew or similar
flavours and other brews that have lime some longer, barrel-fermentation in a coming to a supermarket near you as
or chilli added (not to mention some cellar near the Morningcidery. He serves Tim and partners continue growing
fine classic dry and sweet ciders). a constantly-evolving range – alcohol their volume and supplying more to
content varies between 2.5% and 9% -- supermarkets as well as serving their
In fact, this beverage has its own from a bar in his corner of the Precinct. loyal customers at the Precinct (with
“block” – the Morningside Precinct, a support from Urbanaut which contract
cluster of light industrial buildings that Many beer drinkers will, on occasion, brews and packages the
have been repurposed as a hospitality happily opt for a cider which also has its complementary form of beverage).
hub with eateries and bars to service
own dedicated following. “We have a real
the wider Mount Eden-Kingsland area.
mix of customers … they include gluten-
Tim opened his “Morningcidery” there
free people because cider, unlike beer, has
two years ago, having been one of the
no gluten,” says Tim. “There is no For more information, see
originators of the hub and of the
stereotypical drinker … often the toughest www.morningcider.co.nz
neighbouring Crave Café. (Crave has
guy will order the sweetest cider!”
become an Auckland landmark,
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Questions? Please contact the GS1 New Zealand Team
Bev Gough Craig Russell Caroline James Justin Saunders Sharon Coad
Membership Services Territory Manager, Customer Engagement Hardware Sector Healthcare Engagement
Administrator (aka ‘Director South Island & Sector Manager Engagement Manager Manager
of First Impressions’) Manager Food & Grocery
T 09 820 3786 T 09 820 3782 T 09 820 3784
T 04 494 1050 T 03 310 8082 M 027 236 6207 M 027 534 8708 M 027 281 8310
E bev.gough@gs1nz.org M 021 711 070 E caroline.james@gs1nz.org E justin.saunders@gs1nz.org E sharon.coad@gs1nz.org
E craig.russell@gs1nz.org
Bev is the ‘meet and greet’ Caroline is GS1’s Auckland Justin is GS1’s key engagement Sharon is GS1’s key engagement
point of contact for members Craig is based in Christchurch based Customer Engagement manager for the Hardware/DIY manager for the Healthcare
either calling, emailing or and is responsible for GS1 Manager, responsible for sector, and looks after GS1 sector and looks after members
visiting GS1’s Wellington office. members throughout the South assisting GS1 members members throughout Auckland. throughout the country.
Island as well as major national throughout the region.
Food and Grocery customers.
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