Packaging Trends

The US Pharmacopeia announced a draft standard containing best practices for ensuring that drugs can be traced to their original manufacturer, are not counterfeited or adulterated, and can be transported to their intended destination without compromising quality.

Packaging innovations boost productivity, meet regulatory requirements, and protect products.

Drugmakers and packagers are pursuing various initiatives to reduce their carbon footprints. This article contains bonus material.

Smartphones could become the product-authentication tool of choice. Contains online bonus material.

Many child-safe package designs help improve compliance and provide tamper evidence.

Visitors found new container options, child-resistant concepts, and serialization solutions. This article contains bonus online material.

The 2011 show presents ideas for package designs and equipment options for packaging lines.

Innovations protect the quality of temperature-sensitive products.

Outsourcing packaging functions can save time and money.

Used packaging equipment can be a cost-saving, time-saving alternative to new machines.

Aseptic blow–fill–seal minimizes human intervention in the packaging process.

Visitors to INTERPHEX 2010 will find an abundance of packaging innovations. Plus: Check out our preliminary program for LIVE video interviews at the show.

Pharmaceutical companies get ideas for sustainable packaging from other industries.

Authenticating tools help identify counterfeit drug products. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material.

An expanding number of products and services plug gaps in the cold chain. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material.

Compliance features help patients follow medication regimens correctly.

Products at INTERPHEX focused on protection, compliance, and deterring counterfeiting. This article contains bonus online-exclusive material.

Integrated lines, flexible machines, and high-barrier materials enhance packaging options.

Planning ahead will ensure successful efforts to improve packaging and packaging operations.

Identifying the most sustainable packaging for a product is rarely a simple exercise.

Postponement of California's deadline gives the supply chain time to refine ePedigree solutions.

The annual show provided one-stop shopping for packaging equipment and materials.

New packaging options monitor and protect temperature-sensitive products.

Nonpharmaceutical manufacturers find ways to make environmentally sound packaging.

Going digital can produce high-quality, full-color labels at potentially lower cost.

Makers of temperature-sensitive products constantly seek to ensure proper conditions during shipping and storage.

Exhibitors' products prevent counterfeiting, provide child resistance, protect product quality, and improve packaging-line efficiency.

Many radio frequency identification projects are moving beyond the pilot stage, supported by new hardware and software tools.

Security, the environment, aging populations, the bio-boom, and cost control are just a few of the drivers that will influence pharmaceutical packaging for the remainder of this decade.

A hybrid system using paper and electronic pedigrees will be needed.