Abstract: A tamper-evident item authentication label may include a substrate layer that includes a first substrate side and a second substrate side, a first adhesive layer, a second adhesive layer, a first unique indicium, a second unique indicium, and a plurality of cuts across the first unique indicium and the second unique indicium extending through at least a portion of a thickness of the substrate layer. The adhesive layers may be deposited on the substrate sides and arranged to fuse the tamper-evident item authentication label with a first and second surface. The first unique indicium may be deposited on the substrate layer and encoding a first unique identifier that links the tamper-evident item authentication label to one or more records in a remote database system. The second unique indicium may be deposited on the substrate layer. The second unique indicium may include a stochastically created visual pattern.