Colorcon® brings you the ability to protect against pharmaceutical counterfeits with new on-tablet anti-counterfeiting and brand protection technologies. You can achieve greater product security and patient protection by utilizing branding and identification technologies specifically designed to make tablets easy to recognize yet practically impossible to fake.
Counterfeit protection requires a combination of unique on-tablet identification and authentication technologies that provide visual, electronic, forensic, and sensory identification. Through the use of these counterfeit protection technologies, Colorcon’s Brand Enhancement System for Tablets (BEST®) helps our phramaceutical partners to take a more active role in assuring patient safety and mitigating the risk involved in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
System Options
Exclusive Tablet Identification and Authentication Systems from Colorcon provide unique identification elements to help in preventing pharmaceutical counterfeits and reducing medication errors, all while enhancing your brand's image.
System options include both overt and covert technologies. Both of these technologies are effective in protecting pharmaceuticals from counterfeiting.
Overt technologies include:
- unique color-shifting coatings, shape, size and logo combinations.
- electronic scannable bar coding* or imaging visible to the naked eye.
Covert technologies include:
- forensic tags − edible markers in the film coating.
These technologies can also help:
- prevent medication errors.
- ensure brand identity and security.
- ensure patient safety.
- link with electronic track and trace systems.
Ensure the integrity of your pharmaceutical tablets as you enhance brand identity and increase patient safety using the BEST services from Colorcon.
*Bar codes applied to tablets are protected by U.S. Patents No. 6,766,341 issued 8/17/04, No. 6,799,725 issued 10/5/04, No. 5,992,742 issued 11/30/99, and USSN 10/660,276 filed 09/11/03.
