Anti-counterfeiting

The WHO has set up the International Medicinal Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT) with all 193 member states to combat counterfeit drugs. Five key areas were identified ... 

IMPACT International Medicinal Products Anti-Counterfeiting... 

The WHO should lead the establishment of an International Medical Products Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce (IMPACT) of governmental, non-governmental and international institutions aimed at ... 

It is on this basis that WHO has lead the establishment of the International Medical Product Anti-Counterfeiting Taskforce, IMPACT (www.who.int/ impact). IMPACT aims at gathering and mobilizing all key stakeholders at the international, regional and national level in order to effectively combat counterfeit medicines within the guiding principles enshrined in the Declaration of Rome (Box 7). 

Overt and covert anti-counterfeiting features - bank notes, paper documents, casino chips and brand protection, i.e. as replacement for specialty conventional (luminescent and fluorescent) dyes in security applications. 

Giraud et al., 2002 Qiang, 2003 Wen-tao et al., 2005) anti-counterfeiting (Berger et al., 2004) polychromic and thermochromic effects (Aitken, 1996a,b R6 and Biscans, 1999 Oktem, 2003 Hatefi and Amsden, 2002) and technical textiles and specific medicinal applications (Gouin, 2004 Vasiliu et al., 2005). 

ATL Security Label Systems was established in 2007 to provide an advanced new line of labels, offering security and anti-counterfeiting features such as invisible digital forensic marking, track and trace, mass serialization, custom codes, 2-D barcodes, color shifting authentication, covert machine readable markers, and anti-microbial labels and packaging. 

W.F. Fagan (ed.). Optical Security and Anti-Counterfeiting systems (Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers, WA, 1990)... 

Intaglio printing A process used in making currency that creates ridges and grooves in the printed substrate an anti-counterfeiting measure. 

By placing a drop of their ferrofluid on a small piece of paper, stndents can observe another application of ferrofluids - as a magnetic ink. Ferrofluids stain the paper and the magnetite nanoparticles become embedded in the cellnlose paper material. The attraction of the magnetite towards a magnet can lift the paper. Magnetic inks such as this are part of the anti-counterfeiting measnres found in U. S. currency 24). 

In the field of security and anti-counterfeiting applications, inks and paints incorporated with quantum dots can be applied to many types of surfaces, including papers, plastics, and metals. In fact, the wide image identifies any subject or document when exposed to UV. 

Functional Textiles Anti-counterfeiting Water Oil Resistance - Insect Barrier Anti-Allergy Bedding... 

Liu Y., K. Ai, L. Lu. Designing lanthanide-doped nanocrystals with both up- and down-conversion luminescence for anti-counterfeiting. Nanoscale, 3, 4804—4810 (2011). 

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