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Covectra: Serialized Security Label

New StellaGUARD label uses smartphone technology to provide real-time authentication and traceability.

New StellaGUARD label uses smartphone technology to provide real-time authentication and traceability.
New StellaGUARD label uses smartphone technology to provide real-time authentication and traceability.

Covectra®, a serialization, authentication and track-and-trace technology services provider, announced the launch of its patented StellaGUARD® security label. The label is embedded with stars that are arranged in unique and random patterns and contain a serialized GS1 2D barcode, thus enabling real-time authentication and serialized pedigree tracking through the use of a mobile app developed by Covectra.

The StellaGUARD label can be applied to virtually any package and material, was developed by Covectra in anticipation of the EU’s 2019 Falsified Medicines Directive requirement for tamper-evident seals on all pharma and OTC primary packages. The security label is integrated with Covectra’s EPCIS Certified AuthentiTrack® database, which now is managing more than billion serial numbers. This enables the StellaGUARD label to be used not just for rapid authentication, but also for diversion detection and isolation as well.

StellaGUARD offers two layers of protection, leveraging the benefits of a barcode and connecting it with an image of a random pattern of “stars” embedded in a label, providing instantaneous authentication and copy-detect protection. Since barcodes can be easily copied, this new solution makes counterfeiting virtually impossible, which is especially critical when it comes to the pharmaceutical industry when counterfeit goods can be life threatening.

Using smartphone technology a user can scan the 2D barcode with a mobile device, and a photographic image is taken with the smartphone. The app’s software then identifies and validates the barcode. Upon authentication, product information and customized marketing messages can also be displayed by the brand owner.

Covectra is exhibiting the StellaGUARD security label along with its new ATLAS L1/L2/L3 site/line serialization system at this year’s Interphex in New York City from March 21-23. Covectra can be found at Booth #1728.

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