The IADD working in conjunction with the Braille Authority of North America (BANA) officially released the Can-Am Braille standard on Friday, May 8, at the 2009 IADD•FSEA Odyssey in Atlanta, GA, USA. An informative technical workshop, “Let Your Fingers Do The Talking: Braille on Folding Cartons” reviewed the “North American standard in detail.

The International Association of Diecutting and Diemaking (IADD) has produced a Braille standard for pharmaceutical packaging in North America that will be published at the 2009 IADDFSEA Odyssey show in May. The standard, Can-Am Braille, which is modelled on the ECMA Euro Braille and Marburg Medium standard specified by the European directive for Braille on Pharmaceutical packaging, is designed to create a set of guidelines in the absence of North American legistlation and has been developed with the Braille Authority of North America.