Billerica, Mass.—October 15, 2009—Passport Systems, Inc. announced today that it has been invited to participate as a member of the panel discussing counterfeiting issues at the World Customs Organization’s (WCO) first Technology and Innovation Forum. The Forum will take place November 5-6 in Brussels, Belgium. It will focus on: customs administration’s objectives in identifying and analyzing emerging threats and challenges, discussing technological solutions to new threats, providing a platform for dialogue and cooperation between the public and private sector in the sphere of border management; and forging new partnerships among WCO members.

“This is an extremely important forum for the international community of customs organizations and supply chain practitioners”, said Gustavo Bottan, Vice President Business Development at Passport Systems, adding that “we are honored to participate in this event and to describe the results obtained so far by the use of our Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence (NRF) technology to determine the composition and identification of materials in cargo.”