Capsule Encryption
Pharmaceutical products are increasingly threatened by counterfeit drugs entering the market that pose safety risks to consumers and may be harmful to your brand.
Protect Your Medications from Counterfeiting and Illegal Diversion
Capsugel now provides state-of-the-art on-capsule brand protection through a global collaboration with NanoGuardian™, a leader in delivering brand protection solutions for pharmaceutical products. Your capsules arrive pre-encrypted – requiring no added capital investment or manufacturing steps by you – and are ready to use out of the box.
Multiple Defenses
The NanoEncryption technology provides on-capsule brand protection to help fight product counterfeiting and diversion with a multi-layered approach:
- Overt and covert security features enable authentication at any point in the supply chain from plant to patient
- Forensic NanoCodes, incorporated directly onto capsules, provide tracing information on every single dose (e.g., manufacturing location, date, batch, lot #, dosage strength, expiration date, etc.) and are virtually impossible to replicate
- Implemented with no additional chemicals added to the medication, unlike many other on-dose protections
- A simple field inspection can quickly reveal if a dose is authentic, while proprietary tools within NanoGuardian's Product Integrity Centers can reveal the forensic-level encrypted NanoCodes that can contain extensive data about the capsule.
- Customers purchasing pre-encrypted capsules can also take advantage of NanoGuardian's Closed-Loop Protection™ program that offers proactive market-monitoring. This "early warning" system randomly samples products where counterfeiting or diversion is suspected and authenticates doses in just 24 hours.
Additional Resources
March 24, 2009The Statistics of Counterfeit and Diversion Detection in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains