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The EU Falsified Medicines Directive has come into effect! Are You Ready?
Today – February 9, 2019 – the Falsified Medicines Directive 2011/62/EU has come into effect. It requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide secondary packaging of prescription medicines with an individual serial number as a 2D code for identification, plus a tamper-evident feature proving that the packaging is intact. This requirement is intended to stop illegal trading of falsified medicines.
January Pharma-Security Feature: Security Booklet-Label
Falsified medicines are a lucrative business for criminals. According to the “Pharmaceutical Crime: A Growth Market” research report published by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in October 2016, one kilogram of the counterfeit version of a well-known potency-enhancing drug sells for 90,000 euros on average, whereas the price of cocaine is estimated at “merely” 65,000 euros. The serialization of packaging, complemented by anti-counterfeiting labels, helps stop this illegal trade.
December Pharma-Security Feature: SecuMed
Incidents of medicine counterfeiting increasingly often make the headlines – particularly when customs authorities achieve a major coup. In September 2017, German customs confiscated 950 parcels with 68,000 falsified pills and vials at only three parcel centers within a single week. An anonymized survey revealed that one in eight physicians has at one time or another held a counterfeit in his/her hand, and even six in 500 pharmacists have. One in seven counterfeits comes from a pharmacy in another EU country.

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The EU Falsified Medicines Directive has come into effect! Are You Ready?

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm

Today – February 9, 2019 – the Falsified Medicines Directive 2011/62/EU has come into effect. It requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide secondary packaging of prescription medicines with an individual serial number as a 2D code for identification, plus a tamper-evident feature proving that the packaging is intact. This requirement is intended to stop illegal trading of falsified medicines.

January Pharma-Security Feature: Security Booklet-Label

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Falsified medicines are a lucrative business for criminals. According to the “Pharmaceutical Crime: A Growth Market” research report published by the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in October 2016, one kilogram of the counterfeit version of a well-known potency-enhancing drug sells for 90,000 euros on average, whereas the price of cocaine is estimated at “merely” 65,000 euros. The serialization of packaging, complemented by anti-counterfeiting labels, helps stop this illegal trade.

December Pharma-Security Feature: SecuMed

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Incidents of medicine counterfeiting increasingly often make the headlines – particularly when customs authorities achieve a major coup. In September 2017, German customs confiscated 950 parcels with 68,000 falsified pills and vials at only three parcel centers within a single week. An anonymized survey revealed that one in eight physicians has at one time or another held a counterfeit in his/her hand, and even six in 500 pharmacists have. One in seven counterfeits comes from a pharmacy in another EU country.

November Pharma-Security Feature: Multi-Tear Closure Label

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Mid-October, some 500 tons of fake medicines were confiscated in international raids. They included ineffective potency-enhancing drugs, pain killers and dietary supplements as well as counterfeit cancer drugs. According to Interpol, 116 countries were involved in the operation and 850 suspects arrested. This again shows the importance of tamper-proof packaging. An EU Directive-compliant closure seal provides an effective solution.

October Pharma-Security Feature: NFC-Label for digital tamper evidence

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Treatment by self-medication with autoinjectors: a growing trend. For patients, the ease and safety of handling are particularly important. For pharmaceutical manufacturers, the protection of patients against fake medicines and security of the supply chain are crucial. The EU FMD, besides serialization, requires tamper protection of secondary packaging, however without considering first-opening indication for injection devices. That is exactly what the NFC-Label for autoinjectors is offering.

September Pharma-Security Feature: LumiSecure

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Often the less conspicuous a closure seal appears on medicinal packaging the more sophisticated the security technology it contains. Effects that are both conspicuous and unequivocal will only emerge when an informed expert authenticates the seal, like in the case of LumiSecure: Illumination by a special light makes colors on the label visible that can be clearly verified and thus indicate the authenticity of the packaged medicine.

August Pharma-Security Feature: Flexi-Cap

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Dumpster diving – this means sifting through containers, typically in search for food. However, medicine counterfeiters have long discovered this “source” as well: They look for empty medicine containers in order to fill them with fake substances. While the mandatory EU Directive makes tampering with secondary packaging more difficult, the risk with primary containers remains – and here first-opening indication would be particularly important: a security gap that Flexi-Cap can effectively close.

July Pharma-Security Feature: Covert-Hologram Seal

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Stolen, repackaged, illegally refilled and relabeled: Whether or not a medicine is a copy is often not readily visible. Many counterfeiters have perfected their skills so that even customs and police officers can be deceived. The inconspicuous Covert-Hologram Seal seems to be easy to fake – but when it is opened an effect emerges that no counterfeiter expects.

Smart Packaging at PDA’s 3rd Europe Annual Meeting

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Trade fairs/Events

On 27 June 2018, Uwe Braun (Product Manager Patient Compliance Monitoring Solutions at Schreiner MediPharm) will be speaking about “Smart Packaging as an Enabler for an Outcome Based Healthcare System” at PDA’s 3rd Europe Annual Meeting.

June Pharma-Security Feature: Microparticles

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Trade in counterfeit medicines is booming. The reasons: High profit margins, low risk of detection and relatively low penalties in some countries that prosecute the production of fake medicines as a patent infringement instead of what it really is: the endangerment of human life. Thus, for highly counterfeit-prone medicines, covert features such as microparticles provide particularly reliable proof of authenticity.

May Pharma Security Feature: Thermochromatic Inks

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that in Europe up to one percent of medicines in the market are counterfeit (WHO Report 2011). All dosage forms are affected. This does not only pose a risk to patient safety but may also jeopardize the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s reputation. Therefore, it is of vital importance to detect counterfeit products and withdraw them from circulation. Label-integrated thermochromatic inks enable exactly this: efficient authentication of medicines.

April Pharma-Security Feature: ShiftSecure

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

In September 2017, “Operation PANGEA” was run for the tenth time – an annual activity coordinated by Interpol to combat the sale of counterfeit and illegal medicines on the internet in which more than 100 countries participated. 25 million illegal and counterfeit medicines worth more than 50 million U.S. dollars were confiscated: a record number that shows how important fast and reliable authentication of an original product is. For customs officials, physicians, pharmacists and consumers.

March Pharma-Security Feature: Cut-Through-Indicator Seal

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

Product pirates often use a simple but perilous method to put falsified medicines on the market: They open the product pack and exchange the contents. If the medicine pack is sealed with a conventional label, product counterfeiters simply cut through it and reapply the seal – this will often go unnoticed by patients. The Cut-Through-Indicator Seal, however, thwarts such tampering attempts.

Color Laser Film 2

Automotive, Featured, Innovative Marking, Schreiner ProTech

Schreiner has developed the next generation of its COLOR LASER FILM marking system. A new composition of the CLF layers enhances counterfeiting protection due to specific interactions that occur during the laser marking process.

February Pharma-Security Feature: The Digital BitSecure Copy Detection Pattern

Featured, Schreiner MediPharm, Tamper Evidence / EU Directive

When it comes to securing the supply chain, digital technologies are playing an increasingly important part in the anti-counterfeiting strategies of pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical manufacturers, distributors/retailers and inspectors must be able to clearly determine on-site.

New look, enhanced product: Schreiner PrinTrust at TRUSTECH 2017

Credit Institutions, Featured, Products/Technologies, Public-sector Clients, Schreiner PrinTrust, Sicherheit, Trade fairs/Events

Last year, the former CARTES trade fair moved from Paris to Cannes and also adopted a new name: TRUSTECH. Now, Schreiner PrinTrust is launching a new look as well. From November 28 to 30, at its trade fair booth featuring a new key visual, the business unit will be showcasing its products and solutions for automatic vehicle identification, and for banking and government authorities. The highlight at booth Riviera J 039 will be the ((rfid))-Windshield Label Global Secure that has been enhanced by new security features.

Modern visual for Schreiner PrinTrust

Featured, Schreiner PrinTrust, Services

Our Schreiner PrinTrust business unit now uses a new, modern key visual for its presence at trade shows, on the website, in presentations or on brochures. Our colleagues at Schreiner PrinTrust are specialists in security and authentication. They develop and market customized functional labels for authentication, tamper protection and automatic identification.

Video Interview: The Label of the Future

Featured, Products/Technologies, Schreiner Group, Trade fairs/Events

When our electronic ((rfid))-Parking Permit won first place in the “Innovation” category of the 2017 FINAT Label Competition this summer our colleague Dr. Joseph Adelsberger, Team Leader R+D Base Technologies at Schreiner Group, talked about the label of the future on the occasion of the awards ceremony at the European Label Forum in Berlin – the video is now online.

360-Degree Model for RFID Labels

Automotive, Electronics, Engineering, Featured, Innovative Marking, Products/Technologies, Schreiner LogiData

Industry 4.0 is an increasingly relevant hot topic, as more and more companies in the automotive industry, in mechanical engineering and in the electronics sector are seeking to roll out RFID across all processes. While the selection of a suitable label tends to initially be focused strictly on unit cost, an analysis covering all the bases right from the beginning would be important for developing a perfectly customized RFID solution with long-term viability. Schreiner LogiData’s 360-degree model assists in this endeavor.

Product Protection: DIN Guide with our Know-how

Featured, Schreiner PrinTrust, Schreiner ProSecure, Sicherheit

“Standards are developed by those who will subsequently apply them.” This is one of the tenets of “Deutsches Institut (DIN) für Normung,” Germany’s major standardization organization. For instance, that is why Günther Galfe, the president of our Schreiner PrinTrust business unit, is a member of the “Actions against Product Piracy” working group. In this context, he contributed his comprehensive expertise to the creation of a guide titled Measures against Counterfeiting – Guidelines for the Preparation of Protection Concepts against Counterfeiting, Illegal Reproduction and Trade of Illegal Goods published in May 2017.

Counterfeit-Proof Packaging for Medicines Is Essential

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Products/Technologies, Schreiner MediPharm

Counterfeit drugs are a hot topic. This was highlighted by various programs on German television recently, culminating in a prime time movie on Germany’s national television channel 1, titled “Gift” (“Poison”).

Miniaturization-megatrend: the smallest adhesive die-cut part created by Schreiner ProTech to date

Bonding, Electronics, Featured, Products/Technologies, Schreiner ProTech

Nothing’s impossible, says a well-known advertising slogan. Schreiner ProTech could now claim the same. In response to a customer inquiry for a solution to fix a component in position, the business unit developed the smallest adhesive die-cut part ever created at Schreiner Group.

Hanover Fair: Enhanced Security for Integrated Industry

Engineering, Featured, Logistics/Transport, Products/Technologies, Schreiner ProSecure, Schreiner ProTech, Trade fairs/Events

Creating a tangible experience of the benefits of digitalization: that was what the 2017 HANNOVER MESSE promised its visitors—and impressively delivered on its promise last week. Our Schreiner ProTech business unit was represented at the world’s leading industrial trade show as well, having presented its solutions and services centered on secure product marking and digital transformation. The lineup showcased at the shared VDMA booth billed as “Industrial Security” was focused on hot topics such as Product Authentication, Track & Trace and Product Lifecycle Management.

Innovations at interpack

Featured, Pharmaceutical Industry, Products/Technologies, Schreiner MediPharm, Trade fairs/Events

Labels applied to pharmaceutical packaging have evolved into high-tech products featuring a wide variety of functions. The innovative product solutions presented at interpack in Düsseldorf by our Schreiner MediPharm business unit demonstrate these evolutions. Special highlights showcased by Schreiner MediPharm in Hall 7A (Stand B02) include a brand new marking solution for syringes and smart labels with integrated NFC technology

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The EU Falsified Medicines Directive has come into effect! Are You Ready?

January Pharma-Security Feature: Security Booklet-Label

December Pharma-Security Feature: SecuMed

TOPICS:

The EU Falsified Medicines Directive has come into effect! Are You Ready?

January Pharma-Security Feature: Security Booklet-Label

December Pharma-Security Feature: SecuMed

November Pharma-Security Feature: Multi-Tear Closure Label

October Pharma-Security Feature: NFC-Label for digital tamper evidence

September Pharma-Security Feature: LumiSecure

August Pharma-Security Feature: Flexi-Cap

July Pharma-Security Feature: Covert-Hologram Seal

Smart Packaging at PDA’s 3rd Europe Annual Meeting

June Pharma-Security Feature: Microparticles

May Pharma Security Feature: Thermochromatic Inks

April Pharma-Security Feature: ShiftSecure

March Pharma-Security Feature: Cut-Through-Indicator Seal

Color Laser Film 2

February Pharma-Security Feature: The Digital BitSecure Copy Detection Pattern

New look, enhanced product: Schreiner PrinTrust at TRUSTECH 2017

Modern visual for Schreiner PrinTrust

Video Interview: The Label of the Future

360-Degree Model for RFID Labels

Product Protection: DIN Guide with our Know-how

Counterfeit-Proof Packaging for Medicines Is Essential

Miniaturization-megatrend: the smallest adhesive die-cut part created by Schreiner ProTech to date

Hanover Fair: Enhanced Security for Integrated Industry

Innovations at interpack

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