Packaging

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.

Dr. Bernhard Hladik from SCHOTT breaks down the delamination phenomenon and describes how pharma manufacturers can effectively fight back.

You have the perfect drug and the right packaging to protect it. All is well until the medication reaches the patient, who habitually pops the tablets into another container for easy storage or leaves them exposed to the atmosphere. Film coatings are more than just a pretty face.

Glass is the most important primary packaging material for injectable drugs, but the demanding requirements of today’s sensitive biologicals mean that we must consider newer, safer alternatives.

Medicine packaging leaders forming the “Matrix Alliance” will bring improved container and closure systems to market.