Data Matrix Technology Set to Benefit Pharmaceutical Industry
As the pharmaceutical industry faces high production rates of fake drugs—the counterfeit pharmaceutical market alone is worth 17% of the...
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RFID: Next-Level Serialization Technology
As serialization technology advances, businesses are increasingly looking for ways to adopt the latest options to serialize their...
What is a Supply Chain?
Identem has outlined the basic structure of a supply chain. Find out more here!
Top 5 Categories of Fake Goods
Find out the top 5 product categories have become victim to counterfeiting here.
Why It’s Hard to Spot Counterfeit Products
In 2017, European Union customs cracked down on 31 million individual fake products at various points on the border. Last year, United...
Industries That Will Benefit From Track and Trace Solutions
Within a year’s time the world’s counterfeit market is expected reach a value of USD1.82 trillion.
PNMB InnoVentures Tackles the Counterfeit Market with Identem’s Track and Trace Solutions
PNMB InnoVentures Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of security printing solutions provider Percetakan Nasional Malaysia Berhad (PNMB), has entered...
Trade in fake goods is now 3.3% of world trade and rising
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 18 March 2019 Trade in counterfeit and pirated goods has risen steadily in the...
5 Harmful Effects of Counterfeiting
In 2013, the counterfeit market was estimated to account for approximately 2.5% of global trade. Today, it’s estimated to account for...
It’s time to stop murder by counterfeit medicine
By Joel G. Breman | STAT News 7 May 2019 It was the kind of mistake that’s all too easy to make: Richard Morrow, a pioneer in...
The Financial Upside to Serialization
While product serialization can help counter the penetration of counterfeit goods into the global supply chain and consequently prevent...
WHO to develop policy on track-and-trace for pharma
By Phil Taylor | Securing Industry 26 March 2019 The World Health Organization (WHO) will work on guidance to help member states...
How Serialization Can Save Lives
According to World Health Organisation estimates, 1 million people around the world die every year from the intake of counterfeit drugs....
Fake drugs kill more than 250,000 children a year, doctors warn
By Ian Sample | The Guardian 11 March 2019 Printer ink, paint and arsenic found in some drugs sold to treat life-threatening illnesses...
Types of Serialization
According to research market consultancy Statistics MRC, the track and trace solutions market is expected to grow from USD1.35 billion in...
Amazon moves to end the scourge of fake goods on its platform
By Taylor Telford | The Washington Post 28 February 2019 Merchants have long complained that Amazon’s lax policing of counterfeits has...
What is Serialization?
In 1974 the world’s first product carrying a Universal Product Code (UPC)—most commonly known as a barcode—was scanned in an American...