ISO PLANS ANTI-COUNTERFEITING GUIDELINES
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL standard helping food companies protect their products against counterfeiting is being drafted by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). It wants formal global guidelines ensuring the many devices and systems used to authenticate genuine products operate at a high standard. There is currently "no global standard available to help compare the different systems, establish performance criteria or ensure interoperability," said an ISO note, which added the food sector was a priority, because of the ...
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