Packaging, Labeling, and Distribution Systems

Innovations awarded at Pharmapack Europe include improvements for patient compliance and protection from errors, tampering, or misuse.

The agency prepares a plan to implement new packaging safety features.

Baxter has voluntarily recalled lots of IV solutions due to potential container leakages and particulate matter.

The company has voluntarily recalled one lot of magnesium sulfate in water for injection because of incorrect labeling.

Jones Packaging and ThinFilm will collaborate on NFC OpenSense technology for pharmaceutical packaging.

Parenteral packaging of the future will include more automated lines, ready-to-fill packaging formats, and supply-chain transparency.

The revised USP Chapter 1207 gives best practices for obtaining reliable data in container closure integrity testing.

The plant will manufacture Clariant’s moisture-control products to support the growing pharmaceutical packaging market in India.Clariant announced on Dec. 1, 2015 that it is investing CHF 10 million in a new packaging manufacturing plant in Cuddalore, India. The plant will manufacture Clariant’s moisture-control products to support the growing pharmaceutical packaging market in India.

With the acquisition of Medipac’s tube filling assets for effervescent tablets, Romaco can now offer the complete line configurations for effervescent tablets.

Integrated pharmaceutical blister-packaging equipment systems strengthen serialization and brand protection capabilities.

This investment comes in response to the increasing demand for high quality and safe pharmaceutical packaging. rlc already has two pharma packaging centers in Rüdersdorf near Berlin, Germany and in Poznan, Poland.

The latest revisions to the international pharmacopoeia standards for glass pharmaceutical packaging have emphasized the importance of assessing delamination propensity of pharmaceutical glassware, including bottles, vials, cartridges, and syringes.

Problems in an induction-sealing process, such as untorqued or crooked caps, can be identified and corrected in real time using dynamic thermal imaging.

Delamination of glass packaging is a source of particulates in parenteral drugs, but identifying the root cause allowed the design of an improved manufacturing process for glass vials.

Virtual pilot programs examine scenarios that may occur while implementing serialization requirements for the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act.

Catalent Pharma Solutions announced plans to quadruple the cold-chain capacity at its existing clinical supply storage and distribution facility in Shanghai, China. The expansion comes in response to increasing demand from domestic and multinational pharmaceutical sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs).

The joint marketing agreement allows the companies to expand dedicated blister feed system technologies.

Test results of the new multilayer plastic container show that it offers sensitive pharmaceuticals extra protection against moisture vapor and oxygen permeability.

The challenge of achieving zero visible defects (i.e., particulates) in parenteral drugs will require a coordinated effort at all stages of the supply chain, particularly in the production and filling of primary containers.

Manufacturers of parenteral drugs face challenges to increase efficiency, control particulates, control extractables and leachables, and eliminate product/package interactions; new containers and packaging equipment offer increased options.

The complexity of new packaging regulations laid out in the Falsified Medicines Directive could threaten the existence of smaller pharma and packaging companies.

FDA warns that compounded or repackaged drugs stored in certain syringes made by Becton-Dickinson may lose potency because of an interaction with the rubber stopper.

Adents’ Pharma Suite serialization software features track-and-trace capabilities.

Label Vision Systems (LVS) will be fully integrated into Microscan and the LVS name will become a brand within Microscan’s barcode label verification portfolio.

UPS joins the Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance program to help secure the drug supply chain.

Virtual pilot programs that simulate scenarios can help the pharmaceutical industry address core issues in the implementation of serialization systems that comply with the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act.

Citing failure to meet child-resistant closure requirement, Merck has advised that all bottles should be examined for cracks and that affected bottles should be kept out of children’s reach.

Ger Standhardt, manager of knowledge development & projects at NVC, shares insights on the role of pharmaceutical packaging and accessible design in patient adherence.

WuXi PharmaTech and TruTag Technologies successfully applied and detected TruTag's edible microtags on solid-dosage drug products and found no effect on dissolution.

Wourld Courier's Climate Optimisation Research & Engineering (CORE) Lab near Cologne, Germany, will enhance package evaluation and validation.