When it comes to pharmaceutical brand authentication, trackandtrace, and anticounterfeiting, exciting new technologies continue to emerge at the packaging level. Those benefits are delivered via nanoencryption&trade, an ondose, brandprotection technology that serves to trace and authenticate every dose from plant to patient. To do that, capsugel uses nanoguardian&rsquos nanoencrypter machine at its facility. The machine, with roughly a 10&rsquox10&rsquo footprint, uses different change parts to &ldquonanoencrypt&rdquo each customer product dose with three layers of security features on the outside of the unfilled capsule. An overt nanoencryption mark is visible to the eye. A covert mark can be seen using a handheld microscope and can be read by a pharmacy or by law enforcement anywhere in the supply chain. The third layer is the nanocode, which given its nano scale size, is forensic by nature, with 350 of these nanocodes fitting in the width of a human hair. Only specialty readers can read and verify this information, which is developed specifically for each product from each company by capsugel.
