This first ever Encyclopedia for the label producer and label user sectors provides a comprehensive understanding of the latest terms and terminology for all kinds of label and product decoration solutions, including label materials, label adhesives, label printing methods (including digital printing), types of labels, label application technologies, label inspection systems, label overprinting and label end-usage, as well as the related areas of tickets and tags. The legislative requirements for diverse labeling products are reviewed, as well as issues of bar coding, brand protection, counterfeit deterrence, security labeling, tampering, retail theft and source tagging. New innovations entering the world of labels that have been included covers topics such as smart labels, RFID, nanotaggants, anti-microbial tags, biocodes, biomonitoring systems, chipless tags, 2D coding, DNA taggants, food freshness indicators, reactive code labels, transdermal patches and time or time/temperature indicators. All the main label or label-related organisations have been incorporated and some of the key label industry pioneers are also highlighted.