Regulatory entity registration verification and age verification system for consumer products

A method for confirming regulatory entity registration of a consumer product and verifying age of a user of the consumer product, the method comprising:

• coupling a radio frequency tag to the consumer product wherein said tag is programmed to provide the following identifying data to a mobile computing device when said tag is scanned:
• a unique product identifier, and an encrypted packet comprising a hash that uniquely identifies said tag;
• storing in a database, communicatively coupled to a communications network, a record for each of a plurality of consumer products, wherein each record includes:
• a unique product identifier, and a hash algorithm;
• storing in a database, communicatively coupled to a communications network, a record for each of a plurality of consumers, wherein each record includes:
• a unique consumer identifier, and a date of birth;
• executing an application on a computing device communicatively coupled to the communications network, wherein said application is configured for reading identifying data from the radio frequency tag and transmitting said identifying data to a server via the communications network;
• wherein the server is configured for:
• i) receiving the identifying data from the application;
• ii) accessing a first record in the database that corresponds to the unique product identifier in the identifying data;
• iii) comparing the hash in the identifying data to a hash algorithm in the first record;
• and
• iv) if the hash in the identifying data matches the hash algorithm in the first record, then transmitting, over the communications network, a confirmation of regulatory entity registration of the consumer product to the application;
• wherein said application is further configured for reading user identification data from the user and transmitting said user identification data to the server via the communications network;
• wherein the server is further configured for:
• i) receiving said user identification data from the application;
• ii) calculating an age of the user based on the user identification data;
• and
• iii) if the age of the user is above a predefined age, then accessing a second record in the database that corresponds to the user and storing the user identification data in the second record, and a pointer to the first record.