Packaging and Distribution

The World Packaging Organization will present a keynote session at CPhI discussing trends affecting pharmaceutical packaging, including user-friendly design.

The agency announced that differences in strength expression on product labels of compounders and conventional manufacturers may lead to dosing errors.

A keynote session at CPhI will discuss how the trend to personalized medicine affects pharmaceutical packaging.

Insulated shippers boost recyclable and renewable content.

PCI Pharma Services and CSP Technologies will partner on protective packaging solutions for clinical trials and stability testing.

August Faller will demonstrate boxes for expanded communication space, smart packaging, and tamper-evident labels.

Gerresheimer started producing its Gx RTF ClearJect cyclo-olefin copolymer syringes in Germany and will exhibit at CPhI WorldWide 2018.

Gore’s new flexible freeze containers are designed to protect high-value drug substances from container breakage or leakage.

groninger and SKAN have collaborated to develop Integra, a production line concept that integrates both an isolator and filling machine for vials with a large capacity range.

Single-use technologies, modular systems, and robots are on the rise.

Automated robotic arms manipulate nested trays and containers inside closed aseptic filling systems.

Pharma packaging manufacturer Sanner has expanded capacity at its site in Budapest, Hungary.

The company is voluntarily recalling one lot of Hydrochlorothiazide Tablets USP 12.5 Mg because of a labeling mix-up.

Pfizer Consumer Healthcare is recalling one lot of Children’s Advil Suspension Bubble Gum Flavored 4 FL OZ Bottle because of improperly marked dosage cups.

Understanding inventory and the optimal type of retrieval is crucial for designing a pharmaceutical warehouse facility.

Materials in contact with a drug must be fully characterized to ensure they do not negatively affect the safety and efficacy of the product.

Air transport continues to be the most secure way to ship valuable therapies, but it is also the riskiest. Standards are helping to improve service quality.

New FDA guidance suggests ways to supplement labeling, to ensure that patients select and use nonprescription drugs safely.

Pharmaceutical packaging designs evolve to protect children, while maximizing access for seniors.

Certain blister card packages that do not meet US child-resistant packaging requirements are being recalled because they pose a risk of harm if the tablets are swallowed by children.

Traditional glass and polymeric materials compete for market share in primary packaging for parenteral drug products.

Amazon will acquire PillPack, an online pharmacy that offers pre-sorted doses of medications and home delivery.

Fagron Sterile Services is voluntarily recalling two lots of Neostigmine Methylsulfate 5mL syringes due to mislabeling.

Automated robotic arms manipulate nested trays and containers inside closed aseptic filling systems.

Bowe Systec has developed a modular stand-alone solution specifically designed to meet serialization requirements and that combines all the necessary functions in a single system. The new serialization solution will make its debut at Achema 2018.

Rommelag will showcase its single-use, flexible packaging system at Achema 2018.

Rommelag will showcase its blow-fill-seal technology that collectively offers container production, aseptic filling, and container closure.

The updated version of Schubert-Pharma’s Flowmodul unit for packing units into flowpacks features cleanability.

Hapa addresses the topics of four-color printing on blister packages, serialization, and digitalization at Achema 2018.

Innovations in fill/finish equipment and in solid-dosage moisture-control packaging technologies were on display at INTERPHEX 2018.