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New analysis on DSCSA, the EU Digital Product Passport, the EU Battery Passport, EUDR, and anti-counterfeit authentication is published here on an ongoing basis.
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DSCSA enforcement is here: the last exemption now ends Nov 27, 2027
Enhanced drug distribution security is no longer optional. What manufacturers, wholesalers, and dispensers must prove at the unit level under §582 — and exactly where serialization stops short.
June 2026 · 7 min read
Read the article →AI Agents Run the Search. The Brand Keeps the Tap.
AI shopping agents now sit between brand and buyer. The product is the channel a brand still owns, and one NFC tap on a genuine unit opens it.
October 2026 · 5 min read
EU DPPThe Digital Product Passport for operations teams: what changes
ESPR 2024/1781, the delegated acts, what a passport must carry, and why the physical anchor decides whether anyone can trust it.
June 2026 · 6 min read
Anti-counterfeitWhy a 2D barcode alone can't authenticate a product
A QR code is open, cloneable, tamper-blind data. A chip is cryptographic identity. Where each belongs, and why you need the pair.
June 2026 · 5 min read
68% of Supply Chain Leaders Are Investing in AI. 51% Say Data Accuracy Is the Biggest Barrier.
Impinj’s Supply Chain Integrity Outlook 2026, based on surveys of 750 supply chain professionals, documents the central contradiction of the current…
August 2026 · 14 min read
EU DPPBeyond Borders: Global Trade under ESPR
No DPP, No Market: How the EU Digital Product Passport Is Reshaping Global ManufacturingThe European Union represents one…
August 2026 · 11 min read
EU DPPDigital Product Passport Updates: What Changed in 2025 to 2026 and Why Your Supply Chain Needs to…
Digital Product Passport Updates: What Changed in 2025 to 2026 and Why Your Supply Chain Needs to Adapt Now. The era of…
August 2026 · 14 min read
EU DPPEvery DPP Article, Guide, and Regulation Published in 2026 Arrives at the Same Conclusion: It…
Every DPP Article, Guide, and Regulation Published in 2026 Arrives at the Same Conclusion: It Starts With the Identifier. The…
August 2026 · 13 min read
EU DPPThe DPP and the End of Unverifiable Sustainability Claims: What August 2026 Changes for Every Brand…
The DPP and the End of Unverifiable Sustainability Claims: What August 2026 Changes for Every Brand in the EU. The End of…
August 2026 · 15 min read
EU DPPThe Gatekeeper of Global Trade: Why the EU Central Digital Product Passport Registry Changes…
The Gatekeeper of Global Trade: Why the EU Central Digital Product Passport Registry Changes EverythingBy 5arz Editorial August 2026The July 20, 2026…
August 2026 · 8 min read
Field noteThe Great Regulatory Convergence: Why the Multi-Framework Compliance Crisis of 2026 Is Actually One…
The Great Regulatory Convergence: Why the Multi-Framework Compliance Crisis of 2026 Is Actually One Data Infrastructure Problem.
August 2026 · 19 min read
EU DPPThe Identity Crisis of Heavy Industry: Bringing the Digital Product Passport to Steel and Aluminium
The transition of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) into the heavy industry sector marks a massive…
August 2026 · 10 min read
TechnologyThe RFID Label Has a New Job: It Is No Longer a Counting Tool..It
The RFID Label Has a New Job: It Is No Longer a Counting Tool..It Is the Most Reliable Witness in the Supply Chain. The…
August 2026 · 16 min read
EU DPPThe Strategic Shift: DPP as the Anchor Architecture
The regulatory landscape facing global manufacturers has grown increasingly complex, dense, and interconnected. For years,…
August 2026 · 14 min read
Field noteThe Transparent Era
The global supply chain has historically operated as a masterclass in obscurity. For decades, the journey of a product from a raw material in the…
August 2026 · 17 min read
IndustryUnlocking Deep-Tier Visibility: The Technology Infrastructure Demanded by the EU CSDDD
Beyond Tier 1: The Enterprise Blueprint for Deep-Tier Supply Chain Due Diligence Under CSDDDThe Corporate Sustainability…
August 2026 · 20 min read
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DSCSA, EU DPP, EU Battery, EUDR and anti-counterfeit — sent occasionally, no noise.
Verification, applied to training data.
The same logic Aeroz applies to physical goods — prove the thing is what it claims to be — applies to the data models learn from. Published on Medium by our sister brand, 5arz.
Medium · 5arzThe Data Integrity Crisis: Why Human Verification is the Only Antidote to AI Model Collapse
AI-generated content is quietly contaminating the training data of the next generation of models. Without identity-verified human annotation, systems slide into model collapse — losing rare edge cases first, then degrading into homogeneous output.
July 14, 2026 · 2 min read · 5arz Editorial
Read on Medium →Where the mandates are heading.
Deeper dives are in progress. In the meantime, each topic links to the industry briefing where the regulation, the deadline, and the verification gap are mapped in full.
One platform for DPP, DSCSA & Battery Passport
A fair, side-by-side comparison of pharma serialization suites, DPP/QR platforms, blockchain traceability, and Aeroz — where each category excels, where it stops, and how to choose across multiple mandates.
Read the comparison → EU DPP · BriefingThe DPP data-carrier requirement
GS1 Digital Link, QR, and NFC under ESPR — how the data carrier is specified, and why the carrier alone isn't proof. Related reading: the EU Digital Product Passport briefing.
Read the briefing → EU Battery · BriefingThe Battery Passport, ahead of Feb 2027
Regulation (EU) 2023/1542, Article 77: unit-level identity for every LMT, industrial >2 kWh, and EV battery. Related reading: the EU Battery Passport briefing.
Read the briefing → EUDR · BriefingEUDR: provenance to the GPS plot
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 binds cocoa, coffee, timber, palm, rubber, and soy to a verified plot of land. Related reading: the Food & Agriculture briefing.
Read the briefing → Anti-counterfeit · BriefingGrey-market diversion intelligence
How first-scan geography and unit-level custody expose parallel-import routes before they spread. Related reading: the Luxury & Fashion briefing.
Read the briefing →Everything we’ve published. 68 pieces.
Newest first. Every piece is published here in full — Medium is a copy, not the original.
The EU Started Charging €2 a Parcel Yesterday.
The EU Started Charging €2 a Parcel Yesterday. The System That Would Let It Check Them Arrives in 2034. Five point nine billion low-value items came into…
Read the piece →30 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitStop Acting Like Your Supply Chain Is Secure.
Thirty-five articles in this series have described what cannot be proved about a product. This one describes what can, how the mechanism actually works…
Read the piece →28 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitA Falsified Transplant Drug Reached India Twice.
A Falsified Transplant Drug Reached India Twice. The First Had a Fake Serial Number, the Second a Real One. In 2023 the counterfeit carried a serial…
Read the piece →26 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitFake Labels Are Now One of the EU’s Biggest Counterfeit Categories.
Fake Labels Are Now One of the EU’s Biggest Counterfeit Categories. Korea’s Answer Is a Better Label. The EU detained a record 196 million counterfeit…
Read the piece →23 Oct 2026 · Supply chainAI Agents Run the Search. The Brand Keeps the Tap.
AI shopping agents now sit between brand and buyer. The product is the channel a brand still owns. Here is what one NFC tap on a genuine unit gives back.
Read the piece →23 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitThe Restructuring of Global Trade and the Evolution of Supply Chain Risk
The update on the geometry of global trade published by the McKinsey Global Institute documents a structural transformation that runs counter to popular…
Read the piece →21 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitFaking an Ozempic Pen Needed Counterfeit Needles. A Weight-Loss Pill Needs None.
A federal indictment lists what it took to counterfeit an injectable: packaging, inserts, pen labels and needles, sourced from China.
Read the piece →20 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitCounterfeiters Are Refilling Genuine Bottles and Resealing Them
In Kuwait this week police seized 4,000 perfume bottles and the tool used to seal them. American law has treated an empty liquor bottle as contraband for…
Read the piece →19 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitIn Counterfeit Raids, the Packaging Often Outnumbers the Product
A Birmingham warehouse held 12,000 fake weight-loss pens and packaging for 30,000 more. The ratio is not new, and US and EU law both reach the packaging.
Read the piece →15 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitSerialization Caught Fake Ozempic in 2023. Here Is What It Can’t Catch.
Falsified Ozempic was caught inside the legal EU supply chain in 2023, which is the strongest case against the argument that printed numbers prove nothing.
Read the piece →14 Oct 2026 · Product safetyA Face Cream Recall Shows Why a Batch Number Can’t Prove a Product Is Genuine
Singapore found a banned dye in two batches of a Korean face cream. The maker tested the same two batch numbers, found nothing, and said it had never…
Read the piece →13 Oct 2026 · Product safetyThailand Made the Prescription Compulsory. Tracing the Pen Is Voluntary.
Thailand now requires a prescription for injectable GLP-1s. A Bangkok clinic, five molecules, 18,178 pharmacies, and a serial number no rule yet requires.
Read the piece →12 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitCounterfeits Threaten K-Beauty’s Hardest-Won Asset: Trust
A Korean face cream, three sellers, and two sets of laboratory results that are both true. Why a batch number could not settle whose jar it was.
Read the piece →9 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitIn Norfolk, CBP Said It Cannot Catch It All. The Bigger Problem Is What It Did Catch.
A forged plumbing certification and a forged textile safety label, stopped at one Virginia port, describe a weakness that runs under almost everything we…
Read the piece →7 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitFake Vials Carried QR Codes. They Did Not Scan.
On August 18, Karnataka’s drug regulator raided a farmhouse near Bidadi and found more than 7,400 vials of cheap medicine refilled and relabelled as…
Read the piece →2 Oct 2026 · Anti-counterfeitNHTSA, CBP and NAFDAC Found Fakes in every industry.
In the thirty days to 2 October 2026, counterfeit goods were seized, recalled, alerted on or prosecuted in at least a dozen countries. Counterfeit…
Read the piece →1 Oct 2026 · EU Battery PassportThe EU Missed Its Own Battery Passport Deadline. Yours Did Not Move.
Article 77 of the Batteries Regulation gave the European Commission until August 18, 2026 to adopt the rules on who may read a battery passport. The…
Read the piece →30 Sep 2026 · Product safetyIf Your Child Is Wearing Halloween Makeup or Contacts This Year, Read This First
FDA does not approve cosmetics before sale, and every contact lens, even a costume one, needs a prescription. What tests found and what to check by Oct 31.
Read the piece →29 Sep 2026 · EU DPPAlmost all DPP Deadline Dates Have Been Solidified.
The EU has published a calendar for the Digital Product Passport. Every date on it checks that the data is genuine. None of them checks the product.The…
Read the piece →28 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitA Counterfeit Airbag Can Be a Pending Issue For Decades.
On 24 September 2026, Representatives Zoe Lofgren and Ben Cline, together with Senators Thom Tillis, Chris Coons, Marsha Blackburn and Adam Schiff,…
Read the piece →25 Sep 2026 · DSCSACongress Just Voted to Serialize the Pill Press. Not the Pill.
A pill press stamps powder into tablets. A good one makes a pill that looks exactly like a real prescription pill, down to the markings. It is the one…
Read the piece →24 Sep 2026 · EU Battery PassportThe EU Battery Mandate Clock is Ticking…Are You Even Prepared?
The EU Batteries Regulation has a reputation as the one traceability mandate with teeth. A date, a liable party, market denial for non-conformity. On…
Read the piece →23 Sep 2026 · DSCSAThe Multi-Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Shift: Real-Time Intelligence, DSCSA Mandates, and the Phygital Product Era
The Multi-Trillion-Dollar Supply Chain Shift: Real-Time Intelligence, DSCSA Mandates, and the Phygital Product EraBy Aeroz Editorial September 2026The…
Read the piece →22 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitThe QR Code Didn’t Scan. That Was the Only Warning.
On August 18, drug inspectors in Karnataka raided a distributor in Bidadi, about 30 kilometres outside Bengaluru. Behind the storefront they found an…
Read the piece →21 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitWhen You Need to Find One Specific Vial to Save a Child’s Life, Inventory Accuracy Is Not a Retail Metric
Texas Children’s Hospital lost $40 million a year to drug waste and inventory failure. RFID saved $14 million in a quarter, with 99.99% inventory accuracy.
Read the piece →18 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitIs Your Protein Powder Genuine? How to Check the Tub You Bought.
Counterfeit and unregistered protein powders: what regulators found, what Amazon changed in 2026, and how to check the tub you bought.
Read the piece →17 Sep 2026 · Product safetyAn $8 Million Criminal Fine. And a CPSC Report That Never Came.
Royal Sovereign: 40 Fires. One Death.On April 28, 2026, Royal Sovereign was sentenced to pay an $8 million criminal fine after pleading guilty to…
Read the piece →16 Sep 2026 · Product safetyThe FDA Issued 54 Medical Device Warning Letters in 2025.
The FDA issued 54 medical device warning letters in 2025, up from 46. CAPA, design control and complaint handling failures keep leading the list.
Read the piece →15 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitA Parent Found the Needle. The Seller Had Been Shipping for a Year.
Thailand’s 52 million baht peptide raid shows what happens when injectable drugs are sold online with nothing on the box that anyone can verify.By…
Read the piece →14 Sep 2026 · Product safetyFDA Warning Letter Cites Fresenius Over Leaking Dialysis Bags
FDA's Aug. 25, 2026 warning letter to Fresenius's Ogden, Utah plant cites its investigation of leaking Delflex dialysis bags and visual inspection program.
Read the piece →11 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitThe Supply Chain Is Being Rebuilt. The Counterfeits Are Keeping Up.
The DOJ’s Trade Fraud Task Force just crossed $1 billion in recovered losses from customs fraud schemes. RAIN RFID shipped 42.7 billion chips this year…
Read the piece →10 Sep 2026 · EU DPPBeyond the Hype: Dissecting AGI Claims and Their Implication for Global Supply Chains
The tech landscape is once again dominated by breathless declarations of imminent Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems theoretically capable…
Read the piece →8 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitThe Vape You Bought at a Gas Station Could Send You to the Hospital
In September 2025, federal agents seized 4.7 million unauthorized vape units worth $86.5 million in a single operation, making it the largest illegal…
Read the piece →8 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitWhen Beauty Goes Viral, Counterfeits Follow.
Viral beauty launches sell out fast, and counterfeits fill the gap. What LAPD and Irish regulator seizures of fake cosmetics show shoppers and brands.
Read the piece →4 Sep 2026 · Product safetyThe FDA Doesn’t Test Your Supplements: Inside the $50 Billion Regulatory Loophole
The modern wellness aisle is an exercise in carefully calibrated authority. Clean lighting, minimalist typography, frosted glass jars, and terms like…
Read the piece →3 Sep 2026 · Product safetyIf You Have Taken a Supplement in the Last 30 Days, Read This
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency recall for a popular weight loss supplement after laboratory testing revealed it contained an…
Read the piece →2 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitIf Your Child Plays With Toys Bought on Amazon, You Need to See This
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an emergency warning on August 5, 2026. Amazon quietly began removing products without notifying parents…
Read the piece →1 Sep 2026 · Anti-counterfeitExtra Virgin Olive Oil Fraud: How It Happens and What to Check.
Why extra virgin olive oil is a frequent food-fraud target, what the evidence shows, how mislabeling works, and what to check before you buy.
Read the piece →31 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeitIf You Recently Bought a New Car, You Could Be in Serious Danger
More than 211,000 counterfeit automotive parts were seized by U.S. Customs in 2024 alone, which is nearly double the year before. Federal agencies…
Read the piece →28 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeitCross-Industry Smuggling and the Aeroz Thesis: What a $3.7M
CBP’s August 2026 seizure of $3.7 million in fakes at Houston’s airport mixed Louis Vuitton, Nike, baseball apparel and Jaguar Land Rover diagnostic tools.
Read the piece →26 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeit10,000 Uncertainties
NHTSA bans counterfeit airbag inflators traced to China following fatal explosions, marking its first equipment ban in over twenty years.By AEROZ…
Read the piece →25 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeitCryptographic Evidence vs. Printed Claims: Closing the Salvage Repair Vulnerability
Alexia De La Rosa was seventeen years old. She was driving a 2019 Hyundai Sonata in Utah when she was involved in a minor collision. It was the exact…
Read the piece →24 Aug 2026 · EU DPPThe Structural Failure of CPG Acquisition
The Structural Failure of CPG AcquisitionThe direct-to-consumer (DTC) model for consumer packaged goods (CPG), and food and beverage brands in…
Read the piece →21 Aug 2026 · EU DPPA Beverage Brand’s Most Expensive Decision Is the First Sale.
A Beverage Brand’s Most Expensive Decision Is the First Sale. The Can in a Customer’s Hand Is the Cheapest Way to Make the Next One.
Read the piece →20 Aug 2026 · EU DPPCustomer Acquisition Costs Have Never Been Higher: NFC Products Are the Most Efficient Retention Infrastructure That Exists.
Customer Acquisition Costs Have Never Been Higher: NFC Products Are the Most Efficient Retention Infrastructure That Exists.
Read the piece →19 Aug 2026 · Product safetyThe Fallacy of the Batch Perimeter: Why Modern Supply Chains Require Item-Level Serialization
Optimization methodologies in modern food safety and agricultural distribution suffer from a fundamental structural flaw: they treat wide batch…
Read the piece →18 Aug 2026 · Product safety19 Million Eggs, One Carton Code: The 2026 Shell Egg Recall
The 2026 Midwest Poultry Services egg recall: the facts, how to check your carton, what to do, and why 19 million eggs went when only some were unsafe.
Read the piece →17 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeitThe High Cost of Shifting Trade: How Tariff Volatility Drives Global Product Fraud
When tariffs rise, counterfeiting follows. The global trade environment of 2026 has created a perfect storm for product fraud, exposing structural…
Read the piece →17 Aug 2026 · EU DPPA/B Testing Optimizes for the Wrong Moment.
A/B Testing Optimizes for the Wrong Moment. Brands That Realize This Are Moving Their Personalization Downstream, Into the Product.
Read the piece →14 Aug 2026 · EU DPPGlobal Trade Reconfiguration in 2026: The New Supply Chain Reality
The Paradox of Modern Commerce: Volume Expansion Amid Structural ShiftsDespite widespread expectations that higher tariffs, geopolitical fragmentation,…
Read the piece →12 Aug 2026 · EU DPPThe Physical Internet: How Smart Packaging Reached Commercial Maturation
The Industrial Maturation of Smart PackagingThe transition of smart packaging from an experimental innovation to a mandatory commercial baseline marks…
Read the piece →11 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeitU.S. House Passes the Counterfeit Notification Act (H.R. 4930)
The House passed the Counterfeit Notification Act, H.R. 4930: Customs may share packaging, manifest and tracking data on fakes with rights holders.
Read the piece →10 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeitTariff Volatility Is Now a Permanent Cost That Has Created the Largest Counterfeiting Opportunity in a Generation
72% of 225 trade leaders in Thomson Reuters’ Global Trade Report 2026 named US tariff volatility their top regulatory change. How that feeds counterfeits.
Read the piece →7 Aug 2026 · EU DPPThe RFID Label Has a New Job: It Is No Longer a Counting Tool. It Is the Most Reliable Witness in the Supply Chain
The RFID label is no longer a counting tool. Retailers and brands want end-to-end traceability, and the tag has become a witness across a product’s life.
Read the piece →7 Aug 2026 · Anti-counterfeit68% of Supply Chain Leaders Are Investing in AI. 51% Say Data Accuracy Is the Biggest Barrier.
Impinj’s Supply Chain Integrity Outlook 2026, based on surveys of 750 supply chain professionals, documents the central contradiction of the current…
Read the piece →3 Aug 2026 · EU DPPThe Gatekeeper of Global Trade: Why the EU Central Digital Product Passport Registry Changes Everything
The Gatekeeper of Global Trade: Why the EU Central Digital Product Passport Registry Changes EverythingBy 5arz Editorial August 2026The July 20, 2026…
Read the piece →31 Jul 2026 · EU DPPThe Strategic Shift: DPP as the Anchor Architecture
The regulatory landscape facing global manufacturers has grown increasingly complex, dense, and interconnected. For years,…
Read the piece →30 Jul 2026 · DSCSAThe Great Regulatory Convergence: Why the Multi-Framework Compliance Crisis of 2026 Is Actually One Data Infrastructure Problem
The Great Regulatory Convergence: Why the Multi-Framework Compliance Crisis of 2026 Is Actually One Data Infrastructure Problem.
Read the piece →28 Jul 2026 · Supply-chain diligenceUnlocking Deep-Tier Visibility: The Technology Infrastructure Demanded by the EU CSDDD
Beyond Tier 1: The Enterprise Blueprint for Deep-Tier Supply Chain Due Diligence Under CSDDDThe Corporate Sustainability…
Read the piece →24 Jul 2026 · EU DPPBeyond Borders: Global Trade under ESPR
No DPP, No Market: How the EU Digital Product Passport Is Reshaping Global ManufacturingThe European Union represents one…
Read the piece →22 Jul 2026 · EU DPPThe DPP and the End of Unverifiable Sustainability Claims: What August 2026 Changes for Every Brand in the EU
From August 12, 2026, the EU’s Empowering Consumers directive makes unsubstantiated green claims a legal violation. Why the DPP becomes the proof for them.
Read the piece →21 Jul 2026 · EU DPPEvery DPP Article, Guide, and Regulation Published in 2026 Arrives at the Same Conclusion: It Starts With the Identifier
Every DPP Article, Guide, and Regulation Published in 2026 Arrives at the Same Conclusion: It Starts With the Identifier.
Read the piece →17 Jul 2026 · EU DPPThe Identity Crisis of Heavy Industry: Bringing the Digital Product Passport to Steel and Aluminium
The transition of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) into the heavy industry sector marks a massive…
Read the piece →16 Jul 2026 · EU DPPThe Transparent Era
The global supply chain has historically operated as a masterclass in obscurity. For decades, the journey of a product from a raw material in the…
Read the piece →15 Jul 2026 · EU DPPDigital Product Passport Updates: What Changed in 2025 to 2026 and Why Your Supply Chain Needs to Adapt Now
The EU Digital Product Passport moved from debate to enforcement in 2025 and 2026. What changed under ESPR, where the rules stand today, and how to adapt.
Read the piece →2 Jun 2026 · Anti-counterfeitWhat a QR code proves, and what an NFC chip proves
The QR code is the legal data carrier for the EU battery passport and DSCSA, but it cannot prove the object is genuine. A secure chip identifies the unit.
Read the piece →2 Jun 2026 · DSCSADSCSA enforcement is here: the last exemption now ends Nov 27, 2027
DSCSA §582 is in force, and FDA moved the last exemption, for small dispensers, to Nov 27, 2027. What §582 requires, and where serialization stops.
Read the piece →2 Jun 2026 · EU DPPThe Digital Product Passport for operations teams: what changes
A plain guide to the EU Digital Product Passport under ESPR 2024/1781: delegated acts, what a DPP contains, the data-carrier rule and 2027–2030 timeline.
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The EU Started Charging €2 a Parcel Yesterday.
The EU Started Charging €2 a Parcel Yesterday. The System That Would Let It Check Them Arrives in 2034. Five point nine billion low-value items came into…
Read → Anti-counterfeitStop Acting Like Your Supply Chain Is Secure.
Thirty-five articles in this series have described what cannot be proved about a product. This one describes what can, how the mechanism actually works…
Read → Anti-counterfeitA Falsified Transplant Drug Reached India Twice.
A Falsified Transplant Drug Reached India Twice. The First Had a Fake Serial Number, the Second a Real One. In 2023 the counterfeit carried a serial…
Read → Anti-counterfeitFake Labels Are Now One of the EU’s Biggest Counterfeit Categories.
Fake Labels Are Now One of the EU’s Biggest Counterfeit Categories. Korea’s Answer Is a Better Label. The EU detained a record 196 million counterfeit…
Read → Anti-counterfeitThe Restructuring of Global Trade and the Evolution of Supply Chain Risk
The update on the geometry of global trade published by the McKinsey Global Institute documents a structural transformation that runs counter to popular…
Read → Anti-counterfeitFaking an Ozempic Pen Needed Counterfeit Needles. A Weight-Loss Pill Needs None.
A federal indictment lists what it took to counterfeit an injectable: packaging, inserts, pen labels and needles, sourced from China.
Read → Anti-counterfeitCounterfeiters Are Refilling Genuine Bottles and Resealing Them
In Kuwait this week police seized 4,000 perfume bottles and the tool used to seal them. American law has treated an empty liquor bottle as contraband for…
Read → Anti-counterfeitIn Counterfeit Raids, the Packaging Often Outnumbers the Product
A Birmingham warehouse held 12,000 fake weight-loss pens and packaging for 30,000 more. The ratio is not new, and US and EU law both reach the packaging.
Read → Anti-counterfeitSerialization Caught Fake Ozempic in 2023. Here Is What It Can’t Catch.
Falsified Ozempic was caught inside the legal EU supply chain in 2023, which is the strongest case against the argument that printed numbers prove nothing.
Read → Product safetyA Face Cream Recall Shows Why a Batch Number Can’t Prove a Product Is Genuine
Singapore found a banned dye in two batches of a Korean face cream. The maker tested the same two batch numbers, found nothing, and said it had never…
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