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Did you ever pay for an item with an American 20 bill and watch the clerk make a mark on it with a felt-tipped pen The clerk is determining whether the bill is actual currency or counterfeit.The special pen that the clerk uses contains an iodine solution. I2 forms complexes inside the helices of the polysaccharide amylose that is a component of starch. 

Physical or other equivalent (e.g. electronic) segregation should be provided for the storage and distribution during transit of rejected, expired, recalled or returned pharmaceutical products and suspected counterfeits. The products should be appropriately identified, securely packaged, clearly labelled and be accompanied by appropriate supporting documentation. 

Greenwashing — environmental labels are frequently abused and counterfeited. The growing popularity of false eco-labels prevents the real labels from becoming more credible. Many products are given labels with flowers, bushes, trees, shrubs, hares and birds to suggest that they are environmentally friendly while in fact they are not (Koszewska, 201 Ih). 

Chemists are heavily involved in the manufacture of our currency. In fact, in a very real way, the money industry depends on chemistry and finding substances with the correct properties. The most common paper currency in the United States is the dollar bill. Chemistry is used to form the ink and paper and in processes used to defeat counterfeiters. The ink used on currency has to do a variety of things. It must be just the right consistency to fill the fine lines of the printing plate and release onto the paper without smearing. The ink must dry almost immediately, since the sheets of currency fly out of the press and into stacks 10,000 sheets tall. The pressure at the bottom of the stack is large, and the ink must not stick to the back of the sheet above it. 

British Pharmaceutical Conference 2003 session counterfeiting. The Pharmaceutical Journal (2003), 271 453-454. 

In this chapter we have attempted to show how NIR can be apphed to the field of counterfeiting. The examples of currency and turquoise gemstones are intended to whet the appetite of those who see a wide-open field here and are willing to further explore it. 

The punishment of counterfeiting the public securities as well as of the current coin, is submitted of course to that authority, which is to secure the value of both. 

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States ... 

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