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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-to-enhance-product-recall-process.aspx This announcement...
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10-26-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, anti-counterfeiting, security, safety, HP, cloud computing, EFPIA, 2D Barcodes, IT Solutions, HP Cloud Computing, HP Manufacturing Cloud Computing Platform, SAP
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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://www.in-pharmatechnologist.com/Packaging/2D-barcodes...
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10-26-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, security, Supply Chain, packaging, serialization, safety, HP, EFPIA, Siemens, 2D Barcodes, IT Solutions, Sweden
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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 Data Printing and Improved Pharma Product Protection...
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10-14-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, security, VDP, Track and Trace, authentication, SVDP, mass serialization, image forensics, steganography, counterfeit
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Reconnaissance International's 5th Global Forum on Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting is being held in Miami 24-26 February 2010. Details on the event, including submitting a paper and information on the sponsors, is available at: http://www.regonline.co.uk/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=751954...
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Do you get a product from a trusted brand that just doesn't work right? Chances are pretty decent that your brand has failed to keep counterfeits out of its supply chain. Should you still trust your brand? Hard to tell--surely the brand shares some of the culpability for letting the counterfeits...
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Counterfeiting is like the proverbial bad apple in the barrel. One rotten item ruins the lot. Take this case, for example: "Customers were irate about defective HP ink cartridges purchased from her firm. Several big corporate customers told her they spent days cleaning up leaky ink. The buyer for...
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"HP has confiscated 818,000 counterfeit printer cartridges from outlets in the Middle East in the first quarter of 2009": http://www.business24-7.ae/articles/2009/4/pages/15042009/04162009_4c79bcc2b0724e96a490ba5e574a3c5a.aspx This constitutes roughly $20 million in counterfeit cartridges....
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In case you were wondering, "there is no security through obscurity" is a common phrase used by security practitioners. It means that the security community cannot rely on keeping the security approach secret, and instead must advertise the mechanism for security but keep the "keys"...
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The big Internet auction site, eBay, claims it "has delisted millions of items and suspended tens of thousands of seller accounts last year". Tiffany, however, is suing eBay, claiming they do not adequately police their own site. A good summary of the case is provided at: http://www.thestandard...
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Those of you interested in seeing how a big brand (in this case, HP) advertizes its anti-counterfeiting overt deterrence, please take a look at: http://www.hp.com/sbso/product/supplies/whybuy_fraud.html?jumpid=ex_R295_go/anticounterfeit/supplies Please click on ">>See Demo Of Ink Package"...
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03-09-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, deterrents, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, brand name, copy prevention, tamper-evidence, unique ID, HP, HP inks, anti-copy, HP toners
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I have spent the last two days at the Brand Protection conference here at the Graphics of the Americas ( http://www.graphicsoftheamericas.com/conferences/bpc.html ). With the world's economy in a tailspin, there have been numerous discussions of how unemployed but creative people can find ways to...
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02-28-2009
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, EBay, theft, fraud, safety, counterfeit, Graphics of the Americas, Craigslist, Brand Protection Graphics of the Americas, Yahoo, retail
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A quick set of thoughts from the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos last week ( http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm ). The first addresses Threats to Security: "The cross-border flow of global proceeds from criminal activities, corruption and tax evasion is well over US$ 1 trillion, with illegal...
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Can companies afford to wage war against the counterfeiters? That is the question asked by the Financial Times to a set of experts on business and branding: Their answers are at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1958490-dc5a-11dd-b07e-000077b07658.html . It includes insight into why Legos are built where they're...
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[Another whitepaper length summary of some related articles from this year's blog] PRACTICE Good Anti-Counterfeiting Techniques I have previously remarked that the approaches to counter counterfeiting depend on the relative mix of addressable and unaddressable counterfeiting occurring in the supply...
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12-30-2008
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Filed under: Counterfeiting, variable data printing, security printing, anti-counterfeiting, security, brand protection, brand name, VDP, security VDP, printing, security deterrent, anagram, Security Variable Data Printing, safety
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Thanks to another HP colleague, Homayoun Akhbari, for pointing out this article on challenging the federal Transportation Security Administration: http://www.startribune.com/local/31275879.html "A first-class traveler cleared security with a [phony] Twin Cities-to-Washington boarding pass for Northwest...