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COUNTERFEIT DETECTION

RECOGNIZING PRODUCT FALSIFICATIONS WITH reason to take serious eff orts to protect your products against whether something is genuine or counterfeit. Based on our
DINO-LITE counterfeiting. A leading security company in France works with fi ndings, the producer can then take action, as counterfeiting is
manufacturers with the help of Dino-Lite digital microscopes still a criminal off ense.”
and proprietary software that was adapted with the Dino-Lite
Software Development Kit (SDK).

Deadly forgery:
This process allows manufacturers to apply an authenticity
feature to their products. Their product manager explains:
“This can be a code with a dot matrix, but it can also be engraved
or even stuck in the cap of a product. This code tells us every-
thing about the product and allows us to see if it’s a real product,
a forgery or a so-called gray product, the origin of which
is not immediately obvious. You can imagine that counterfeit
drugs are dangerous and can even be lethal. More than enough
reason for the creation of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement, known as ACTA.
Counterfeiting or falsifying products is a global problem that At present this company uses approximately thirty Dino-Lites.
makes many manufacturers suff er. It is not only common for “We are using Dino-Lite to read and recognize the codes with our But it is expected that this number will increase rapidly because
food and non-food, soft drinks, perfumes and pharmaceutical own software. With the Software Development Kit (SDK), of the ease of use and the modest size of the Dino-Lite.
products to the fast moving consumer goods and the automo- supplied by Dino-Lite, we have adjusted our own software to
“With Dino-Lite we can
tive industry. Counterfeiting is not just an Asian issue, Europeans work with Dino-Lite and all its features. On behalf of our clients
can also play this game. It is estimated that more than ten we do worldwide research into product authenticity. Our people recognize product falsifi cations
percent of all products are counterfeits, which constitutes a go in the fi eld with a Dino-Lite, linked to a laptop where that runs
global loss between 200 and 300 billion euro each year. Enough our software. By ‘scanning’ the product, we can quickly determine at a glance”

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