Quantum Anti-Counterfeiting – Use Cases Across Pharma, Tax Stamps and Beyond

The global menace of counterfeiting is a cost issue measured in trillions, with businesses and governments paying the price. Inevitably, this leads to the undermining of trust in certain sectors – a critical problem in areas like pharmaceuticals, tax stamps and others. Here’s how we’re working to tackle this global problem through patented anti-counterfeiting technology and innovation.

Pharmaceutical supply chain protection

Alongside the aforementioned financial and credibility crises, counterfeit drugs pose a more immediate danger to people’s lives. This is an understandably alarming fact for patients and healthcare professionals, as well as the pharmaceutical brands themselves.

But these lives, reputations and revenues can be protected, with powerful measures like Q-ID®s. These unique quantum signatures can be added to any medicine box or foil and integrated into existing production processes. This enables instant, consumer-led authentication at any point in the supply chain, plus global tracking and tracing of genuine products. So alongside providing peace-of-mind for professionals in the sector, these innovations are helping save lives.

Tax stamp authentication

Another global counterfeiting concern is the impact felt by Government revenues due to fake tax stamps. As with pharmaceuticals, there’s an additional risk of danger to public health and safety, as items such as alcohol and tobacco can be affected.

Consumer and tax revenues can both be protected by the adoption of quantum secure technology. This is helping reduce the transport and sale of illicit goods, by providing a non-cloneable authentication for each stamp. And these can be easily verified by customs officials and consumers via a simple smartphone scan.

Thanks to this innovative approach, authorities are also more able to track products globally and ensure that legitimate taxed goods reach markets.

Further uses for Q-ID® technology

Thanks to the versatility of Q-ID®s, the technology is seeing significant interest in sectors beyond the tax stamp and pharmaceutical industries. Other applications growing in popularity include:

Put simply, the technology offers a scalable and secure solution that cannot be practically cloned or faked.

Ready to leverage the power of quantum mechanics?

The Q-ID® harnesses the random effects of quantum materials to create an unbreakable quantum unique identity that is impossible to replicate but easy to verify. That’s why it’s increasingly replacing dated and more easily faked technology such as holograms and QR codes.

To learn more about how our focus on innovation with real-world impacts could help your business, please contact us.