MSU spearheads research to prevent counterfeit products

In the US there is set up a team, consisting of various researchers from departments at MSU (Michigan State University) or other colleges, who has as aim to combat counterfeit products. They work also together  with officials from technology and automobile parts manufactures and the FBI to attempt a reduction of counterfeiting. That’s why their program calls A-CAPPP that stands for Anti-counterfeiting and product protection.

Wilson, an associate professor of criminal justice and A-Cappp’s director, sees how important the problem is because counterfeiting has a huge social and economical impact. He estimates the worldwide market for counterfeit products at a rough $600 billion and emphasizes the danger of counterfeit pharmaceuticals.  But how can they protect the public from all those counterfeit products?

At first the team will search as much as possible information about the counterfeit products in the U.S ,which they will collect in a database and then  try to indentify criminal patterns.  Another and more practical way to combat counterfeit products is through  the use of biosensors implanted into the products that prove their legitimacy. Hopefully the team will find some good solutions to combat counterfeit products…

Kristof Buffel


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