I must thank Ian M Lancaster for enlightening us simple folk on the tight security involved in producing holograms. But at the same time, his letter further adds to my believe that it is wasteful to stick holograms on pharmaceutical products.
First and foremost, he claims that the holograms can only be authenticated by trained inspectors and personnel. In another words, we ordinary folk will not be able to tell a fake holograms from a genuine one.
As far as I know, the holograms are to safeguard consumers against fake drugs. Meaning a genuine hologram would therefore mean a genuine pharma product. But as it is, the consumers are not able to tell a genuine holograms from a faked one. Don't you think that the whole purpose of hologram is therefore defeated?
Secondly, our learned friend is right that most ordinary folk do not know of all the security features on our banknotes. After all, we just need to look for the watermarks by holding a suspect note against the light.
In conclusion, the act of affixing holograms on pharma products is a practice in futility which will only burden poor, ordinary folk like me in terms of unnecessarily higher costs.