About this event
Please join us for our February DSA meeting featuring two guest presenters!
Speaker: Brad Elrod, Senior Director, Logistics Security Operations, Global Security & Safety, McKesson Corporation
Product security has long been an issue in high value industries, from retail store theft, to corporate warehouse break-ins, but security within the supply chain provides unique problems due to the very nature of the business. Moving any product from the point of manufacturing to the point of sale or use presents multiple hand-offs, it places the product out of a protected environment, and into the hands of multiple players as it moves throughout the supply chain, and not all of those players have the same dedication to safeguarding the materials. Now imagine you are moving a new life saving product, that literally every person on the face of the earth needs, and the threat is no longer simply loss of value but loss of life. You have to protect against theft, where the product can be sold on the black market, and you have to protect the product against counterfeiting so that only proven products are in the market, and throw in some special storage conditions like temperature controls that are hard to maintain and heavy government regulation and direct involvement, and you can start imaging the world of the COVID Vaccine supply chain.
Speaker: Michelle Sullivan, Sr. Chemist, Plant Operations, Government Publishing Office
Surface chemistry is a critical (and sometimes unintentionally overlooked) characteristic of secure documents. This presentation aims to create and broaden the DSA member’s awareness about the role of surface chemistry throughout the lifetime of secure documents. From design choices, through production, and finally forensics, having a chemical understanding of the surfaces at play saves time and money, enhances document integrity, and can increase impartiality during questioned document examination. To illustrate the impact of surface chemistry secure document design and production, we will discuss examples extracted from scientific literature, and from first-hand experience. Finally, a novel forensic application of a 60-year-old surface analytical method that exploits new technological advances will be presented. Validation studies for this method have demonstrated successful deposited ink characterization by differentiating 100%, and determining the intersection deposition order of 50% of blind samples.
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The DSA is an alliance of government, industry and academia dedicated to securing the production, issuance, and authentication of identity, credentials, and currency to help combat fraud and other criminal acts by drawing upon the knowledge and technical disciplines of its members.
