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Whether it’s medicine, food or cosmetics: when opening certain products, we really want to be sure that they have not been tampered with. Since February 2019, over-the-counter medicines must be tamper-proof, or tamper evident proof. It is one of the security features within serialization of the European Parliament to combat counterfeit medicines. In this post, we take you into the world of tamper evident labels, show you how labeling works and how the pharmaceutical industry is fighting drug fraud.

Regular maintenance of marking systems such as labeling machines, label printers, and inkjet printers is essential to extend the service life of the equipment and avoid unplanned downtime. It is highly advisable to take out a maintenance contract, which will give you greater planning and cost certainty. However, you can easily carry out some measures and daily cleaning of the most important parts yourself. Below you will find tips from the experienced service technicians at Weber Marking Systems!

The serialisation of medicines is a concept from the pharmaceutical industry. It is the answer to the European battle against life-threatening counterfeit medicines and their manipulation. In this blog post, we explain what serialisation is and why it is important. EU Directive 2011/62/EU states that prescription medicines must have safety features. These features must, among other things, ensure that the authenticity of the product can be verified at all times. The directive obliges the entire pharmaceutical chain to ensure the authenticity of medicines. And since everyone in the chain is involved, counterfeit medicines can be recognised immediately and withdrawn from the market quickly.

Food products must be clearly labeled to ensure traceability, transparency, and consumer safety. However, the most suitable technology depends on the product, packaging, and production process. Bluhm Systeme has extensive experience in food labeling and presents several solutions in this article – from inkjet printing directly on products or cartons to automated labeling of packaging and pallets.

The dairy industry is a partially arduous environment, but why? When it comes to products with a shorter life cycle, such as milk, we need to avoid contamination with the residues of the product and the possible proliferation of bacteria. Daily cleaning of the production line with all channels and filters in direct contact with milk is essential. However, all types of equipment need protection from water during line washing.

RFID labels create the foundation for transparent and automated processes in industry and logistics. The durable transponders enable contactless identification without line of sight, capture multiple items simultaneously, and store unique EPC codes. Bluhm Systeme provides scalable solutions ranging from mobile slap-and-ship systems to fully automated print-code-and-apply processes, including customized, high-performance software.

Weber Marking Systems’ easy-to-integrate label printer and dispensers are high-tech, advanced technological solutions designed and crafted to take part in industrial environments. Our product line ranges from identifying and marking the product itself – thus primary packaging identification – to marking or labeling the product’s packaging (e.g. boxes, case shippers in the case of pharmaceuticals, envelopes in the case of e-commerce) and last but not least, the identification and label-application on pallet.

Pallets are best known as tertiary packaging in the industrial jargon and consist of many boxes put together and wrapped in plastic film – thus palletized – for simplifying large badges transportation. However, pallets are not meant just to facilitate the transportation of goods, but aim also at guaranteeing safety and traceability. For this reason, production and the whole supply chain use pallets to track, trace and identify badges. In this article, we dive into pallet-identification and pallet-labeling, putting on the spotlight traceability and safety during shipping within different sectors, warehouses, and logistics.

Marking with labels at cold or freezing temperatures requires special label materials with selected adhesives. In a wide variety of industries, manufacturers of refrigerated products require packaging labels that are visually appealing, adhere quickly and easily, stay in place and serve their purpose for the duration of the product’s life cycle as intended.

They need labels that can withstand cold temperatures and, in particular, extreme cold, wetness, freezing and changing application conditions during the cold chain.

Information storage is nowadays essential in order to communicate easily with employees throughout the supply chain or even with customers. QR codes and datamatrix codes have been developed to enable efficient and simple data transmission. Keep reading this article if you want to find out what the difference between a QR code and a Data Matrix code is.

Reliable labeling systems in the medical field is indispensable and extremely important.

Whether it is for the identification of examination material, the marking of samples in laboratories and hospitals or the labeling of blood preserves: a barcode label is the most reliable form of identification.

Labels for laboratory containers are extremely difficult to apply, but thanks to the special properties of the outer material and adhesive, they can be applied without too much effort.