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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.

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.

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.