Anti-Counterfeit Solutions

Counterfeit products threaten legitimate revenue, product performance, safety, regulatory compliance, and brand value. Microtrace develops anti-counterfeit and product authentication solutions that enable manufacturers, brand owners, and regulators to distinguish genuine products from unauthorized copies across products, materials, packaging, and supply chains.

Detect Counterfeit Products with Verifiable Authentication

Effective counterfeit detection requires more than a visible security feature. Microtrace authentication technologies provide verifiable product identity using covert, overt, digital, or machine-readable features selected for the product, manufacturing process, threat profile, and verification requirements.

Authenticate genuine products, materials, components, or packaging
Enable field, mobile, device-integrated, or laboratory verification
Combine physical and digital identifiers for layered authentication
Support enforcement, investigations, and supply chain control with verifiable evidence

Flexible Anti-Counterfeit Technology

There is no single anti-counterfeit technology appropriate for every product or threat. Microtrace works directly with customers to select authentication technologies and implementation methods based on the product, manufacturing environment, security risk, intended user, and required level of verification.

Integrate authentication on or within products, materials, and packaging
Use overt, covert, or machine-readable security features
Scale from straightforward field verification to advanced high-security authentication
Verify using visual inspection, handheld detectors, mobile devices, integrated readers, or laboratory analysis

Explore the authentication technologies that power Microtrace anti-counterfeit solutions.

Core Technologies

Counterfeit Risks Across Products and Supply Chains

Counterfeiting can affect more than the finished product. Authentication may be required at the product, component, material, packaging, or consumable level depending on where the vulnerability occurs.

Product Authentication — Verify that finished products are genuine.
Product Substitution — Detect counterfeit or unauthorized components, materials, and consumables replacing genuine products.
Tampering & Counterfeit Packaging — Identify cloned, altered, resealed, or fraudulently reused packaging.
Ingredient & Material Authentication — Verify raw materials and ingredients before counterfeit, substituted, or adulterated inputs affect finished products.

40+ Years of Anti-Counterfeit and Product Authentication Expertise

Since 1985, Microtrace has developed authentication technologies and systems for organizations facing complex counterfeiting, identification, and product-security challenges. Our vertically integrated capabilities bring together the disciplines required to engineer complete authentication solutions.

Chemistry and Materials Science
Proprietary taggants and authentication materials

Application Engineering
Integration into products, materials, packaging, and manufacturing processes

Detection Systems, Analytics & Intelligence
Field, mobile, device-integrated, and analytical verification

Discuss Your Anti-Counterfeit Requirements

The appropriate anti-counterfeit strategy depends on the product, threat profile, manufacturing process, supply chain, and verification requirements. Microtrace works directly with customers to identify vulnerabilities and determine the authentication technologies and implementation methods best suited to the application.

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