8th September 2016

Denny Bros support pharma with anti-counterfeit solutions

According to Reuters counterfeit drugs have become a $200-billion-a-year global industry, which despite ongoing crackdowns by the authorities is a growing problem. To assist pharmaceutical companies fight back Denny Bros Ltd, the UK’s leading producer of multi-page pharmaceutical labels and printing solutions, is to target the sector during the second quarter of 2016 with a range of anti-counterfeiting solutions.

Denny Bros, who pioneered multipage labelling, known as Fix-a-Form®, has further added to its extensive range of anti-counterfeit solutions which it hopes will help safeguard pharmaceutical producers and the general public from harm.

One of the company’s print features to help combat counterfeiting is a security 2D matrix which enables information to be encoded using either text or numeric data. Microtext is another solution offered, it enables words to be printed below or at one point size which is almost unnoticeable to the human eye without the help of magnification.

Other key solutions offered include producing deliberate print “hickies”, which may not be identified by the human eye and therefore will not be reproduced in a counterfeit item, and thermochromatic ink, which when exposed to heat can reveal or hide print features.

Unique serial numbers can also be incorporated into the print to identify and authenticate individual products. Coin reactive ink is an option which requires a coin to be rubbed over the surface to expose the covered items beneath.

Additional security solutions also include fluorescent UV reactive inks to hide text or pictures until uncovered with UV light, and void protection material, which on peeling back the label covering displays text such as ‘VOID’ or ‘TAMPER WARNING’ to show a product has been interfered with. Other options include silver foil coating and bespoke holograms to make an item more difficult to counterfeit.

Complimentary security solutions supplied by the company include RFID tags which can be covered under labels or inserted into the packaging and acoustic tags to deter shoplifters.

Denny Bros is already a leading supplier to the pharmaceutical sector of multipage labelling solutions allowing detailed clinical information to be incorporated in a booklet label of up to 120 pages. Key features of its labels include easy-open, resealable and even a four ply wet peel solution. Information to be held on the labels can include medication instructions in multiple languages, safety messages, dosage details and legal information. Labelling applications range from containers, vials and even syringes, where despite the often small available surface a large amount of text, graphs and pictograms needs incorporating. Other print solutions at Denny Bros are available from Patient Information Leaflets, to instrument pouches, to single ply labels and much more….

Accredited to PS 9000:2011 and ISO standards, the different security options build on Denny Bros’ many years of experience in the pharmaceutical labelling sector and should widen even further its products appeal.

Denny Bros’ senior marketing executive, Stephie Castling, says: “Over the last few years we have offered a number of anti-counterfeit and anti-tamper solutions which we have subsequently further added to recently. During the next few months we’ll be promoting these to the pharmaceutical sector in a bid to reduce the risk from counterfeit drugs and product tampering, and to help this sector comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive.”

Fix-a-Form®, is sold direct by the company in the UK and beyond through a network of 20 licensed partners who can all adapt its label to suit virtually any product or container, making it suitable for a multitude of different clinical and pharmaceutical applications.

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