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State officials said they will move the birthdate to the middle of every license, making it more difficult to tamper with it. In addition they plan to print "Under 21" in bold red type on minors' licenses...
...This is so a young person can't tamper with it and buy liquor," said Vincent Coporchio of the registry...
...Registry officials said that no license is tamper-proof. "As soon as you make a tamper-proof license someone figures out how to tamper with it," Kathi Connelly, a spokesman, said...
When the first deaths from capsule poisonings were reported, companies said they would be developing tamper-resistant products. In the beginning, manufacturers focused on making the outside of the packaging more secure. For example, they placed tightly sealed plastic around the tops of the bottles. Later came other ideas. R.P. Scherer, a capsule manufacturer, developed a "soniseal" machine that uses sonic waves to weld the two pieces of a capsule together. Eli Lilly last year made available to U.S. manufacturers a similar technique. A band of gelatin is placed around the waist of the capsule, where the two pieces overlap...
Producers candidly admit, though, that their new tamper-resistant packaging is far from tamperproof. Says Marshall Molloy, a spokesman for Warner-Lambert: "Given sufficient resources, skill and determination, the criminal can beat any safety measure known today...