Packaging

Data management is a key factor for success with serialization

An art gallery at Pharmapack showcased the artistic side of primary drug packaging

Are current guidelines around packaging and product degradation up to scratch?

With so many serialization solutions available, where do you start to make a decision?

A consortium of vendors and pharma companies search for a single, serialization standard.

This article explains how an inline probe was used to monitor a granulation at three different scales to confirm that, in each case, the granules produced were the same size, and more importantly produced tablets of identical quality as quantified by hardness.

Nominations are open for The Medicine Maker 2016 Innovation Awards.

Packaging components can leach into drug products and become foreign impurities. Guidelines exist for the testing of drug products for elemental impurities, but how are these applied to elemental impurities derived from drug product packaging?

Europe has set the stage for safer supply chains with its Falsified Medicines Directive. Next, the spotlight could fall on using serialization to boost patient centricity.

The term ‘packaging’ may not immediately evoke excitement – but without innovation in the field, some therapies wouldn’t even reach market. In other words, don’t judge a box by its cover because there’s more to packaging than meets the eye… and even more lies on the horizon.