The nonprofit Signatures and Authentication for Everyone (SAFE)-BioPharma Association certified a trio of Adobe products. The software complies with the SAFE digital signature standard. These are the first software products ever certified by SAFE, a non-profit association that manages digital identity and signature standards for pharmaceutical industries.

Here’s a quote from the news release:

“The successful certification by SAFE of these Adobe products is very important to ensure that SAFE compliance is guaranteed for product users,” said Kay Bross, Senior PKI Specialist, Information Security and Solutions, Procter & Gamble. “As Procter & Gamble moves forward to implement SAFE signatures within the enterprise, the utilization of SAFE-compliant tools will offer a stable delivery mechanism on which to build a platform of electronic business transactions.”

Here’s another quote, from someone who is no relation to the proprietor of this website:

SAFE congratulates Adobe on being the first company to invest in our certification program. We expect these readily available certified products to accelerate use of SAFE digital signatures in the pharmaceutical industry,” said Mollie Shields-Uehling, President and Chief Executive Officer, SAFE-BioPharma Association.

In theory, the SAFE program could eliminate the need for shipping boxes of paper around the planet. To quote the website, the organization “manages the SAFE digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical industries. The SAFE standard provides a secure, legally enforceable, and regulatory compliant way to provide identity verification, non repudiation, and content integrity for electronically signed documents.”