Counterfeit Drug Prevention Program
The criminal trade of counterfeit medicine causes untold damage of the lives and people of nations worldwide. MEDITAG is a KIBO Laboratories program that addresses the occurrence of medicines that are deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled, with the intent to deceptively misrepresent its origin, authenticity, or efficacy.
The MEDITAG Program
To prevent counterfeit and unregistered medicines from entering a nation’s market, the MEDITAG Program ensures the secure delivery of legitimate medicines from the production line to the hands of the consumer. The KIBO process is straightforward and places the accountability for deviations of drug quality or harm to citizens directly on the manufacturer or importer. By using our in-house laboratories, we are able to confirm or challenge the chemical compositions of drugs, providing irrefutable evidence of a manufacturer or importers non-compliance with established government drug standards, when necessary.
- KIBO produces medication security features that are impossible to falsify. These security identification technologies are, depending on the technology used, microscopic, traceable, unique and cannot be counterfeited. With several technologies developed and deployable depending on the circumstances, KIBO's technology and processes are unparalleled
- KIBO prints high security labels with the security features encoded to identify the client country and other information related to the medication. The labels can be read and interpreted with portable devices provided by KIBO.
- KIBO pre-registers drug manufacturers and importers whose products are imported or marketed in the client country. KIBO confirms receipt of technical specifications of each drug and other information, provides security tamper evident and unique security labels which they affix to the products to be sold in the client country.
- KIBO trains government officials in the proper operation of portable scanners used to identify valid KIBO security labels. The scanners are used to confirm the authenticity of medicines through the supply chain process - from distributor warehouses to neighborhood pharmacies or other consumer sales points.
- KIBO Assists the government to implement a campaign informing the public of the authenticity seals and the dangers of consuming medicines which do not have them
When deemed necessary to confirm the composition of a drug sample, KIBO will perform the analysis of the substance.
KIBO Assists the government to implement a campaign informing the public of the authenticity seals and the dangers of consuming medicines which do not have them
When deemed necessary to confirm the composition of a drug sample, KIBO will perform the analysis of the substance.
KIBO Assists the government to implement a campaign informing the public of the authenticity seals and the dangers of consuming medicines which do not have them
When deemed necessary to confirm the composition of a drug sample, KIBO will perform the analysis of the substance.
Inspection and Certification of Foodstuffs
KIBO Laboratories inspects and certifies, on behalf of governments, foodstuffs, raw materials for the production of foodstuffs, agricultural products, and alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks throughout the phases of production, storage, transport, and sale (including imports and domestic products). KIBO’s Inspection and Certification Program focuses on food safety and quality related to contamination and adulteration. Priority is given to the protection of consumer health and economic concerns as well as to the protection of honest entrepreneurs.
- Production inspection: Pertains to the inspection of food processing plants that produce canned or packaged products. KIBO performs the sampling and analysis of the products to check for food safety and quality, inspects the premises to verify hygienic conditions, checks the measuring systems, and carries out any other tests and inspections in accordance with all applicable sanitary regulations.
- These inspections are usually scheduled once a year, except in certain emergency conditions that might require immediate action, such as a case of suspected food contamination.
- Quality inspections encompass both analytical quality and sensory quality requirements. The analytical quality requirements mainly include physical and chemical requirements for quality such as moisture content, ash content, fat content, sugar content, acidity, granulation, or the content of additives. KIBO utilizes the most advanced laboratory technologies for this purpose. The sensory quality requirements include, for example, foodstuff consistency, structure, color, taste, and odor.
- Product Certification: KIBO issues a master certificate to each producer and importer per year and per product, with information on the quality analysis of the product.
- KIBO sells to the producer or importer high-security labels (infrared stamps, optical variable ink, intaglio) that must be affixed to each product so that field-inspectors can identify the real, certified product from the adulterated one. The labels are manufactured with high quality ink and paper of the same quality as bank notes and are numbered and assigned to a manufacturer or importer under rigorous control and auditing. All the information contained in the label is computerized and can be read by field-inspectors using infrared light.