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Biowell takes on counterfeiters

ANTI-PIRACY The Taiwanese biotech firm has launched an anti-piracy product that uses genetic material to give labels a unique signature that is difficult to counterfeit

By Dan Nystedt  /  STAFF REPORTER

So far, Biowell's customers include firms from the software, information technology and components industries, as well as the spirits industry, since copying bottles and packaging on expensive wines and whiskeys has become big business around the world.

Biowell plans to find agents to help it develop markets around the world for its products, as it wishes to remain a pure research organization, according to company chairman Sheu Jen-jei (許俊傑).

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