Serialisation is the buzzword transforming pharma packaging industry
Pharma packaging is one such pillar for business development which has evolved and is still evolving in an accelerated pace. The motive has been defined differently from time to time from containment and protection, to branding to user-friendliness.
Now is the era where the business perspectives are driven through regulatory compliance, customer focus, and environmental sustainability. So maintaining the same packaging should also be designed with a purpose to meet the mentioned perspective as
Regulatory compliance
Regulatory changes are driving packaging innovation globally. Track and trace of the products throughout the supply chain to address the counterfeit issues. Serialisation is the buzz word transforming pharmaceutical packaging industry.
Evolving Product Composition – Rethinking Primary Packaging
These days the focus is on biologic drugs. Most biologic drugs being injectables; glass is the logical choice for primary packaging. However, some biologic drugs are found to interact with glass, delaminate it, causing flaking. So, it is necessary to keep this in mind while developing the primary packaging.
Customer focus and intelligent packaging
An ageing population and increasing life expectancy provides room for packaging innovation. While digital medicine with in-built sensors is making inroads in compliance monitoring and connected care, features such as daily dose markings on the pack are common, advanced features such as digital timers and alarms on packaging reminding patients of the time for next dose are the need of the hour.
This story is from the February 01-15, 2020 edition of Express Pharma.
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