Authentix has joined together with other members of the SecureTrace Consortium to develop a comprehensive brand protection and tracking demonstration centered on healthcare products. We believe the output of this project will provide an effective means of countering the problem of counterfeit and grey market healthcare products that pose a global threat to well-being our society.
Authentix is the global leader in authentication and provides brand protection solutions for the oil and gas, pharmaceutical, consumer, tobacco, spirits, and agrochemical industries, as well as fiscal tax recovery and security services for governments worldwide.
Within our portfolio of brand protection solutions, Authentix has an extensive range of patented technologies for on-package and in-product authentication, including regulatory approved forensic markers for ingestible products such as pharmaceuticals, foods and beverages. The range also includes both overt and covert security inks for field and laboratory authentication. The company has extensive experience in managing in-market testing programs for clients to ensure brand and distribution integrity for a total authentication service including; risk analysis, solutions design, program implementation and legal case management to ensure effective remediation.
Authentix strives for the betterment of society by aiding in the global fight against counterfeiting, diversion, and piracy. The company is accomplishing its mission today by safeguarding pharmaceutical supplies, reclaiming lost tax revenues for citizens and disrupting the commercial activities of organized crime and terrorist funding groups.
Reckitt Benckiser is the world’s leader in the manufacture of household and pharmaceutical products. It has a wide experience in producing five main product groups: antiseptics, analgesics, gastro-intestinals, denture care and depilatories. Reckitt and Benckiser export to 180 countries and operations in 60 countries. The greatest proportion of the healthcare products are manufactured in Hull.
Ingenia Technology is focused on providing brand protection authentication and track and trace technologies through the application of Laser Surface Authentication. The Pharmaceutical industry worldwide is searching for a solution to the growing problem of counterfeit medicines and the LSA technology combined with other technologies such as Datamatrix barcodes on the product packing promises to be a highly secure and cost effective solution to meet customer requirements.
Ingenia Technology is an emerging international company in the authentication and verification of product packaging, papers, plastics and metals, as used in brand protection, documents, ID cards and item level authentication. Ingenia Technology was founded in 2003 with its headquarters in London. The company’s key product is the Laser Surface Authentication (LSA) system – a new, proprietary, and patented technology to rapidly analyze the nanoscopic imperfections in the surface of any item and create a unique digital serial code for the item. This code, which has been described as being like a fingerprint or DNA sequence for the item, is unique for every document, card and carton and can be used to uniquely and unambiguously identify the product. The LSA technology has won a number of prestigious global awards for brand protection security technology and innovation and is being implemented by a number of leading brand owners and government agencies around the world.
Camdata joined the SecureTrace project, because we felt that our programmable Two Technologies product was ideal for reading the 2D barcodes and RFID tags, whilst connecting wirelessly to the system. In addition, we felt we could benefit from working with the consortium partners of other projects. The SecureTrace project is likely to develop into technology that is valuable to the global pharmaceutical industry.
Camdata has been established since 1984 and has shipped over 52000 products. These have been rugged fixed and handheld peripherals, computers and EPOS interfaces. These products are used for shop floor interface in the food, pharmaceutical, aerospace, military and other industries anywhere a standard PC will not function. The EPOS interfaces are for M&S, Argos, IKEA, and Iceland etc. Camdata is generally project orientated with a majority of the work being customised. Camdata develops and manufactures the Microscribe range of rugged handhelds and is the UK distributor of the Two Technologies range of RFID and imaging rugged handhelds.
We saw SecureTrace as an opportunity to address key safety and regulatory issues within industries with high value products or adverse risk from counterfeit product. We felt that AND Automation are unique in our ability to address the manufacturing element of this, and are keen to explore the resulting business opportunities both in Pharmaceutical manufacturing and other industries.
AND Automation deliver quality manufacturing control system solution to assist deliver excellent Return On Investment for our customers. We do this by employing experienced engineering staff who develop long term relationships with our customers to deliver added value before, during and after any project investment. This approach to partnering with our customers has led to expertise in many technology fields including ERP Interfaces, Management Information Systems, SCADA & PLC, Motor Control Centres, Telemetry applications and more recently Safety. We spend time to understand the customer’s project and desired outcome and as such have been able to apply our approach to all types of industry and have often provided innovative solutions to solve traditional issues within any particular sector. The AND Automation approach has been consistently validated through a track record of project success across many different industries.
We are both ISO9001:2008 registered and UL/CSA authorised as part of our continued commitment to excellence.
Pera joined the project due to their specific experience/expertise and scientific knowledge of software development and online electronic comms. They have been involved in several projects that utilise leading edge database and summarisation tools in the knowledge management domain. This combination of skills, plus their track record of delivery makes Pera the ideal RTD performer to compliment the consortium.
Pera is one of Europe’s leading innovation and business support organisations with a presence in eight European countries. Established in the UK over 60 years ago as an industry association owned by the companies it serves, we now work to improve the growth and competitiveness of industry and business in Europe by helping clients gain;
- greater access to global knowledge and markets
- more efficient business processes
- better differentiated products and services
- more effective skills development.
Imsol were keen to get involved in what we see as an important and interesting undertaking. The project has been valuable in exploring every aspect of a fully integrated system combining conventional track and trace with some innovative authentication technologies.
Image Solutions is a Specialist Imaging company providing bespoke solutions for the Industrial and Scientific Imaging Markets since 1993. With customers ranging from large multi-nationals, pure research, pharmaceuticals and heavy industry we offer all our clients leading edge technology to solve their imaging requirements.
Loughborough University is keen to be involved in R&D that has potential
high impact on businesses and society. We strongly believe that the
SecureTrace project falls within this remit.
The Research School of Informatics at Loughborough University was set-up in 2004 and employs more than 50 PhD students and research staff and 6 academic staff in computer vision and biomedical imaging research. The current research at Loughborough is funded by a number of commercial organisations such as Motorola, HP, Qinetiq, Rolls Royce, Corus Rail, Network Rail and so on, and public funding organisations including NHS, Home Office, DTI, EPSRC and EU.
The SecureTrace project is a natural fit for Domino in terms of its commitment to the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry and its continued presence at the forefront of change.
Domino Printing Sciences Plc is a Global leader is the manufacture and supply of complete production line coding technologies, the full range includes; Inkjet, Laser, Thermal Inkjet, Thermal Transfer and Print & Apply coding devices. Offering unrivalled post sales support across the world, Domino prides itself on being able to meet customer requirements whatever they may be. For several years the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industry have been a key area of focus for Domino, introducing GAMP Validation packages and CFR21 pt 11 compliance enabling software throughout its range of technologies. Constantly looking at ways to advance as a company and meet the ever changing legislative demands on the industry, Domino recently acquired a leading supplier of Thermal Ink Jet (TIJ) allowing ever more focus on the exact industry requirements.
The technology that we use in this project is based on the Mu tag from Hitachi. This tag was originally developed to support the anti-counterfeit system on Japanese banknotes where unique and immutable numbers are essential. The same technology is exactly applicable to any other very high volume authentication process and in particular to items where authenticity is more than just a commercial accounting convenience. When medication is copied or tampered with, life may be threatened and when the market for the medication is global and quantities high, accurate and fast authentication is essential.
The Mu tag seemed to fit the needs of the project perfectly and could co-reside with other technologies on the trial product. We see this as a very powerful demonstrator project and look forward to the commercialisation phases in the future.
GIS is based in Cambridge and specialises in Smart Card applications and custom card reading devices. The team handling RFID tags is now part of EGO Secure Systems Ltd co-located with GIS in Cambridge. EGO is a range of devices and software modules for the purpose of identification of people and things and managing the data collected for the purpose of Authentication and Authorisation. EGO SSL also develops custom solutions for specific application needs and supports the integration of new sensing technologies into legacy systems.