Nicotine Products

• De La Rue wins more tobacco tax stamp contracts

  29-Mar-19 - De La Rue signs five more contracts to supply tax stamps to help countries meet tobacco traceability requirements.

• PMI Impact funds 31 new illicit trade projects

  20-Mar-19 - Philip Morris International has selected 31 projects in its latest PMI Impact funding scheme for anti-illicit trade projects.

• Footwear, clothing top fake good seizures, says OECD

  18-Mar-19 - The trade in counterfeit and pirated goods now accounts for 3.3 per cent of world trade and is rising fast, says report.

• AKD claims first with tobacco directive-ready tax stamp

  18-Mar-19 - AKD says it has developed a tax stamp that will fulfil the safety feature requirements of the Tobacco Products Directive.

• Avi Chaudhuri named chief scientist at Systech

  08-Mar-19 - Avi Chaudhuri has been appointed to the newly-created position of chief scientist at Systech, effective immediately.

• PMI blames Pakistan plant closure on illicit tobacco

  05-Mar-19 - High levels of illicit tobacco in Pakistan have led Philip Morris to decide to shutter a local production facility.
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  The case against holograms: how a once-lofty security technology has fallen

  27-Feb-19 - Holograms served their purpose at one time as a product security tool, but no longer, writes Avi Chaudhuri of Systech.

• De La Rue wins UK tobacco safety feature contract

  27-Feb-19 - De La Rue has won a £3.5m contract to implement a track-and-trace system for all tobacco products in the UK.

• Five tonnes of suspect illicit tobacco seized in UK

  26-Feb-19 - Raids by the authorities in the UK have netted around five tonnes of bulk tobacco suspected of being illicit.

• Alert system aims to keep brandname ads off dodgy sites

  14-Feb-19 - An advertising industry organization has launched a warning system targeted at pirate sites in Europe.

• Fake tobacco costs UK £2bn a year, says LGA

  28-Jan-19 - Organised criminals have even put a contract on a sniffer dog to try to protect the lucrative illegal trade.

• Document Security Systems expands in China

  26-Jan-19 - Anti-counterfeit company Document Security Systems has acquired a Chinese company to boosts its presence in Asia.

• Domino unveils ‘disappearing ink’ for track-and-trace

  14-Jan-19 - Domino has launched a new ink that has already found track-and-trace applications in the tobacco industry.

• AKD launches platform for tobacco product traceability

  12-Dec-18 - AKD says its authentication and traceability system meets the coding requirements of the Tobacco Products Directive.

• EU unveils first Watch List on counterfeit and piracy

  10-Dec-18 - The EU Commission publishes its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List, with a warning to big online retailers.

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