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Colorcon On-Dose ID Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

In July, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided "guidance advocating greater use of physical chemical identifiers (PCIDs) in drug formulations as a cost-effective way of authenticating genuine products from fakes." Colorcon has responded...

Published 11-17-2009 4:42 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security deterrent, FDA, safety, PCIDs, In-Pharma Technologist, On-Dose tagging, PCID, tablets, Colorcon

Security--another offshoring risk

A terse but excellent article on IEEE's USA Today's Engineer site today focuses on the often forgotten--or at least ignored--risk of offshoring. National security. The full article is at: http://www.todaysengineer.org/2009/Nov/backscatter.asp...

Published 11-17-2009 4:29 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, Offshoring, safety, IEEE

GS1 Announcement of the Food Recall Portal

Yes, this is an HP blog, and so you forgive me when occasionally (and inevitably) I take an HP line on an announcement, event or trend. Out of interest of serving the broader anti-counterfeiting/anti-fraud/anti-tamper/customer safety community, I point...

Published 11-04-2009 3:45 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, Track and Trace, GS1, food recall, safety, product recall, produce recall, cloud platform

Looking for that lost waffle?

Many of you are aware that 2D barcodes--which look like waffles--are becoming ubiquitous for location-based services, mobile commerce, and increasingly point-of-sale and track and trace applications. Did you know that there are many more you cannot see...

Published 10-31-2009 3:20 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, Track and Trace, InData Systems, 2D Barcodes, ITI, barcodes

EFPIA Announcment, HP Hosting Services

Remember the 24 August announcement on the HP/GS1 food recall service? If not, please enjoy as if new the following article: http://www.communities.hp.com/online/blogs/securityprinting/archive/2009/08/25/big-news-hp-develops-cloud-service-with-gs1-canada...

Published 10-26-2009 5:31 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, anti-counterfeiting, security, safety, HP, cloud computing, EFPIA, 2D Barcodes, IT Solutions, HP Cloud Computing, HP Manufacturing Cloud Computing Platform, SAP

EFPIA Announcements

Hi, all The next few blogs will point you to information on the recent announcement of the EFPIA 2D labelling scheme. The EFPIA is the European Federation of Pharmaceutical and Industries Association. In-Pharma's article on this announcement is: http...

Published 10-26-2009 5:12 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, security, Supply Chain, packaging, serialization, safety, HP, EFPIA, Siemens, 2D Barcodes, IT Solutions, Sweden

In Blacksburg on November 12th? Gimme a Holler!

Growing up, I lived in Eastern Kentucky "for a spell". Rural Rowan (pronounced like "round" without the "d') County, in fact, where the valley I lived in was called "Quail Hollow". As in, a snake bit me and I had...

Published 10-20-2009 10:40 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: anti-counterfeiting, security, safety, consumer safety, Virginia Tech, Identity, Blacksburg, ICTAS

Variable Data Printing and Improved Pharma Product Protection and Brand/Customer Interaction

My previous post was a link to the excellent In-Pharma Technologist blog edited by Nick Taylor. Nick solicited a posting from me back in April, but I could not find it on In-Pharma, so given a 1/2 year grace period, I think its time to post here: Variable...

Published 10-14-2009 4:18 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, security, VDP, Track and Trace, authentication, SVDP, mass serialization, image forensics, steganography, counterfeit

Are you willing to take a placebo 1/5 of the time?

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 10-30% of the medicines in the developing world are counterfeits. I assume this means addressable counterfeiting--counterfeiting to which the buyer is oblivious. http://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Materials...

Published 10-14-2009 3:46 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: Counterfeiting, anti-counterfeiting, Counterfeit detection, USP, In-Pharma Technologist, Cambodia, USAID

Conference Time Part IV: New Findings in Security Printing and Imaging

If there is no rest for the wicked, then I have been very evil these past two weeks indeed. But, I hope some of the findings are wickedly cool. This post is for the paper on new findings in security printing and imaging, and my co-authors are that talented...

Published 09-24-2009 3:07 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, image forensics, NIP25 Conference, NIP25, Counterfeit detection, IS&T NIP25, classification, accuracy

Conference Time Part III: Barcode Readability

Printing and scanning change what you intended to print. This matters in variable data security printing, since there is information encoded there. My friend and colleague Marie Vans explores this issue in another NIP25 paper posted here: http://www.hpl...

Published 09-24-2009 2:54 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, IS&T, Bar code, NIP25 Conference, NIP25, payload density, IS&T NIP25

Conference Time Part II: Dynamic Biometrics

Thanks to HP Distinguished Technologist (his research is distinguished, but actually he's pretty young!) Joe Pato for inviting me to the program committee for IEEE BIdS this year. In addition to reading some excellent papers, mine was accepted. I...

Published 09-24-2009 2:32 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security, privacy, Biometrics, IEEE BIdS 2009, BIdS 2009, Access Control

Conference Time Part I: Extended Packaging

It's September. The month when most people's gas bills hit rock bottom. Kids are back in school, harvest is still just sweat and fury in the future. Closed are the pools, open are the schools, and life is good. Too good. So, those wonderful conference...

Published 09-24-2009 2:12 AM by StevenSimske

Filed under: variable data printing, security printing, security, VDP, packaging, layout, IS&T, NIP25 Conference, sensitivity analysis

More on Security Printing 09

IMI’s 6th Annual Security Printing Conference is being held on November 16-18, 2009 at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland, as noted in an earlier blog. Al Keene has sent me the conference brochure (please see attachment...

Published 09-23-2009 10:04 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, IMI, Methode, InData Systems, Polyonics

ACM DocEng 2009 Conference (Munich)

Today is the middle day of the 3-day DocEng 2009 ACM Symposium (not including the Workshop held before the Symposium, which was on document versioning). The website is http://doceng09.cs.unibw.de/ , and the program is available at http://doceng09.cs.unibw...

Published 09-17-2009 12:29 PM by StevenSimske

Filed under: security printing, security, DocEng, document engineering, ACM, color barcodes, Color tiles, ACM DocEng, DocEng 2009, mobile barcodes, color bar codes, Munich, documents, Oktoberfest, Lederhosen

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