The factory archive stores blueprints for every car Ferrari has made, Mr. Rowley said, and can detect counterfeit serial numbers.
The Food and Drug Administration has posted on the Internet information about how to detect counterfeit packages of the prescription drug Neupogen, which is used to prevent infections in people receiving some types of chemotherapy.
A trace of synthetic human DNA embedded with a hidden code and then applied to a designer dress, a CD or a DVD, or mixed into brand-name perfume, for example, could be used to authenticate a product -- and enable someone with the key to the code to detect counterfeits.
They are also implemented for the purposes of product authentication (to detect counterfeit items) and as a means of assisting supply chain management.
You can go to Web sites and find advice on how to detect counterfeit network accelerator and SSL [secure socket layer] cards.
Its system is also designed to detect counterfeit goods being sold online, such as sportswear and designer handbags, automating the sending of cease and desist requests to speed up the process of removing fake goods from sale.
Spice Mobile threw in an ultra-violet torch that would help detect counterfeit currency and has recently come up with a model with two memory cards that serve like double cassette decks of yore, allowing for easy transfer of data.
There is no reliable way for doctors or lay people to detect counterfeit drugs without help from a laboratory.
According to Hobbs, his firm was the manufacturer of a device which would detect counterfeit nickels inserted into vending machines with complete accuracy.
The first is not having the right tools to be able to detect counterfeit drugs at the point of screening.
