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title: 5 Key Features of Tamper-Evident Labels
description: Product counterfeiting, theft, and tampering are persistent problems facing many companies across a multitude of industries.
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# [5 Key Features of Tamper-Evident Labels](https://blog.abbottlabel.com/5-key-features-of-tamper-evident-labels-)

 Written by [Hayden Wier](https://blog.abbottlabel.com/author/hayden-wier) | Jan 29, 2018 8:41:44 PM

### **The 5 Key Features of Tamper-Evident Labels**

Product counterfeiting, theft, and tampering are persistent problems facing many companies across a multitude of industries. As a result, the ever-increasing demand for tamper-evident security products has grown vast and will continue to develop and prosper as businesses look for ways to secure and protect their products, packaging, and product warranty.

### **Key Features:**

- Protect products, documents, and equipment.
- Deter and detect tampering, theft, and product counterfeiting (label swapping).
- Security features indicate tampering and/or unauthorized access.
- Labels feature a warning deterring product tampering in advance.
- Commonly used as a product seal, warranty seal, authentication label, or package closure seal.

### **What are tamper evident labels?**

Tamper evident labels are designed to secure the item(s) they are applied to by serving as a visual deterrent against tampering, as well as providing visible evidence of tampering or attempted tampering. Our tamper-evident products can help secure and protect a variety of items, ranging from high-value products to important documentation. After applying a security label, the security label will indicate tampering. The tamper evident feature varies for each label product.

### **Material Options**:

Abbott Label primarily offers two main types of tamper-evident materials: Void Adhesives and Destructible Vinyl.

- **Void Adhesives**—a silver polyester material leaving a pattern of the word “VOID”, or another tamper-evident message, when tampering occurs. 
    - **Residue Void Adhesives**—Hollow tamper-evident pattern is surrounded by a strong adhesive on the application surface. The pattern is left behind as an adhesive residue on the originally applied surface.
    - **Non**-**Residue Void Adhesives**— Multi-layered, self-adhesive labels that will reveal the tamper-evident pattern printed on a label film left behind when the top layer of the label is removed or tampered with.
- **Destructible** **Vinyl**–– combine a strong adhesive and an extremely fragile vinyl face material to create a security label product that will fragment into small pieces during any attempts to tamper with or remove the label from its applied surface.

 

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