Modern supply chains are anything but linear. Expanded global operations, cross-border networks and data-driven fulfilment models have redefined how products move - and how quickly they must move.

ID documents continue to be at risk from counterfeiting but innovation in optical technologies plays a central role in the battle to protect people and revenues, says Dr Mark Deakes, chair of the new ...

SICPA, a global leader in secure identification, traceability, and authentication technologies, and Commstack, a provider of next-generation digital infrastructure for commodity traceability and ...

The owners of a shopping mall in Georgia, US, have been ordered to pay $584m by a federal judge in damages to Louis Vuitton (LV) in a lawsuit claiming it sold counterfeit versions of the fashion giant ...

A pilot project aimed to encourage on-farm sustainability reporting and supply chain traceability in the beef industry has been launched in Australia. The pilot will trial a digital sustainability ...

Resale platform StockX has been on the receiving end of claims that it has sold counterfeit versions of branded goods, but claims to have cracked down on fakes in a new report. The company's second ...

The Indian anti-counterfeiting programme meant to protect domestic drug supplies has failed, and is actually now a gift to the counterfeiters. India is again making news in the pharmaceutical sector, ...

A recent survey by the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacies (ASOP) has found that two-thirds of US consumers are aware that buying medicines online is risky, a 22-point increase in two years. The ASOP ...

Falsified copies of Gentium’s antithrombotic medicine Defitelio have been discovered in United Arab Emirates and Kyrgyzstan, prompting an alert by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The counterfeit ...

In 2021, the value of counterfeit and pirated goods imported into the UK amounted to £7.1bn (around $9bn), equivalent to 1.5 per cent of total UK imports, according to a just-published report.

Europe's electric waste – discarded phones, laptops, servers, cables, appliances and other e-products – should be considered an "urban mine" of critical raw materials (CRMs) that could shield the ...

Portugal's Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE) has dismantled a food fraud scheme involving cooking oil, seizing illicit materials worth €82,500. The operation focused on the districts of ...