Method and system for providing product safety to a manufactured item with verification codes

A method for providing anti-counterfeit and product safety to a manufactured item comprising:

• supplying two substantially unique verification codes with the manufactured item, wherein a first verification code is readable and a second verification code is hidden, and wherein both verification codes are initialized to a first state in a database accessible to a validation service;
• allowing a user to submit the readable verification code to a validation service a plurality of times;
• in response to the validation service receiving the readable verification code for validation, providing the user with an indicator of a current state of the readable verification code;
• allowing a user to expose the hidden verification code and to submit the hidden verification code to the validation service a plurality of times;
• in response to the validation service receiving the hidden verification code for validation, providing the user with an indicator of the current state of the hidden verification code;
• and using a first successful validation of the hidden verification code as an event that triggers a state transition of both the readable and the hidden verification codes from the first state to a second state.