 Kregg Albrecht Nosco Vice President of Solutions Engineering Visit Website |
Kregg Albrecht has over 20 years of experience in the printed packaging industry. Currently, as Vice President of Solutions Engineering for Nosco, Kregg leads a team of technical professionals that help customers identify and solve specific packaging engineering problems and improve packaging line performance. Kregg has lead a multitude of package development projects throughout his career in the field of printed secondary packaging such as folding cartons, pressure sensitive labels, miniature folded literature, and a number of specialty packages. Recently, Kregg has been leading his company's efforts in developing security technologies with the goal of protecting companies and patients through innovative packaging solutions.
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Package Protection Q&A
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Asked February 13th, 2012
Tamper evidence and mass serialization are complementary in that both technologies help to protect patients and secure the supply chain. However, they address completely different elements of criminal activity.
Mass serialization protects against counterfeiting and diversion, and is particularly useful against diversion. Diversion can be defined as a legitimate product in an illegitimate market. Tamper evidence protects against, as the name implies, tampering with the product. Examples of criminal tampering include: substituting real drugs with fake drugs, dilution of drug product, or adulterating the drug to cause harm to others.
One other criminal example is that of packaging reuse. I’m not sure whether that falls under tampering or counterfeiting, but we can all agree it is a dangerous fraudulent activity.
To protect patients against the three big threats (counterfeiting, diversion, and tampering) the best packages deploy layered solutions that address all three.
