Fluorescent security measures for authentic liquor products

In June 2015, there was an incident in Mumbai, India, in which more than 90 people died after drinking illegally-manufactured liquor without getting approval from the relevant authorities.

Currently, bootleg liquor is being sold every where across India for less than a dollar. Since the tax imposed on the liquor is sometimes as high as whopping five times to the factory price depending on which state, less-advantaged and poor people often lose their lives while drinking cheap low-quality bootleg liquor whose alcohol degree is artificially raised to some 90 proof. Annually, some dozens to hundreds of people get killed after drinking extremely strong bootleg liquor in India.

Liquor companies apply varied anti-counterfeit measures that discern authentic liquor to bootleg. Below are the examples of the fluorescent security measures for liquor sold in the Indian market. They are security seals for wine bottle and beer can purchased near Agra, India.

The security seals attached on the wind bottle lid and beer can are hologram stickers that are torn when removed. Hard-to-copy holograms are applied on those non-reusable security stickers and then fluorescent security measures were taken, making the security measure almost invincible.

When shone with UV light, numbers emerge. They are dates of manufacture and lot number for the product. You can forge hologram security seal but it is difficult to counterfeit the fluorescent security measures. So make sure to check those security measures with UV light in case of encountering liquor suspected of being bootleg.

You can contact us : uvleddetector@mv21.co.kr