Anticounterfeiting – Can Chemistry Trump Bureaucracy? ( WEBANTI )
Description:
Counterfeiting, diversion, and economically motivated adulteration are growing threats. Increasingly skilled counterfeiters can now defeat protective features in six to nine months. Mass serialization offers a way to verify that a package is genuine, but it imposes a tracking burden at each stage in the supply chain, and one weak link can compromise legitimate product as well. Repackaging is a challenge: it removes tamperproofing and complicates tracking. Tagging and tracking the product itself could keep patients safe … if it can be done simply and inexpensively with open standards. This session explores new methods of anti-counterfeiting that blur the traditional lines between overt, covert, and forensic methods. These methods do not need to be kept secret in order to be effective because criminals cannot reverse engineer them. They use simple detectors, usable by field testers, so forensic does not have to mean “takes weeks for the lab to provide results.”
Objectives:
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
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