Anti-counterfeiting solutions for cardboard packaging

According to the WHO, 1 in 10 medicines sold in the world is falsified. Regulations have evolved, gradually requesting unitary codes (serialization) and tamper-proof devices (tamper evidence). Other solutions can be implemented to strengthen security of packaging. 

Serialization

LGR Packaging has several specific lines to print unitary codes - linear or 2D such as Datamatrix - on glued and folded cartons. This process can be applied on all kinds of materials and designs, without any special non-varnished area.  

The service proposed by LGR Packaging is global:  

• printing of codes with grade from A to C according to customer's requirement,  
• control of codes and ejection of potential duplications,
• check of carton's identity,
• evaluation of the code grade,
• reconciliation with edition of a report summarizing used and rejected codes.

  Offering serialization for the Chinese market for many years, LGR Packaging also proposes its expertise to the Russian market, where the datamatrix contains a cryptocode, which means about 34% more data than in the GS1 matrix used in the European Union.  

Tamper-evidence devices

LGR Packaging proposes different kinds of devices allowing to check that the pack has been opened or damaged:

• glued solutions: partial or total gluing of closing flaps, tear-tapes, detachable pre-cut areas, etc.
• mechanized solutions, without glue: designs with crash lock bottom, clipping systems, notches, pre-cuts, etc.
• external solutions: labelling, filming, bundling.

These devices meet the requirements of the 2011/62/EU Directive, as well as other countries regulation on this topic. 

Each project means a specific study led with the customer to define the most appropriate solution, according to its industrial, marketing and economic constraints. 

Protection and authentication solutions

So as to make copying of the pack more complicated or to check its authenticity, many devices can be implemented, alone or combined, according to the customer's needs. 

Some examples of the most used solutions on the market, with different security levels: 

Our teams are at your disposal for any study or question on these securization issues.