Council adopts hi-tech solution in fight against counterfeit tobacco / 24dash.com, 20 August 2008
http://www.24dash.com/news/Local_Government/2008-08-20-Council-adopts-hi-tech-solution-in-fight-against-counterfeit-tobacco
"Rochdale Borough Council’s Trading Standards team has gone hi-tech in its fight against the sale of counterfeit tobacco. The team is one of the first in the country to use a new ‘tobacco reader’, developed by the tobacco industry to identify packs of counterfeit cigarettes and hand rolled tobacco. The reader is a hand-held device that can be easily transported by Trading Standards Officers when carrying out their enforcement duties. All packs manufactured on or..."