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Celebrating 20 years in healthcare product packaging

Our award-winning editorial team will go back in time to recap the biggest developments in pharma & medical device packaging

Our award-winning editorial team will go back in time to recap the biggest developments in pharma & medical device packaging

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Plan to Attend Pharmapack North America

June 18-19, 2013 ~ Philadelphia, PA

June 18-19, 2013  ~  Philadelphia, PA

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2013 Visionary Awards | Philadelphia, PA

2013 Visionary Awards | Philadelphia, PA

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Technology on Display at Pharmapack North America

Two-day event focuses on drug-delivery and packaging technologies and the role they’ll play in patient safety and product traceability.

Pharmapack North America will take place June 18-19 in Philadelphia. The exhibition will bring together exhibitors offering blister packaging, closures, bottles, cardboard packaging, labeling, printing technologies, components and subassemblies, contract manufacturing, traceability and anticounterfeit technologies, dispensing systems, drug-delivery devices and components, and injectable technologies and components. Read below for a preview of the exhibition and a few highlights from the conference.

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Pharmapack North America: Protect Today’s New Drugs against Contamination

Today’s pharmaceuticals are increasingly being delivered via novel routes, and many are designed for patients to use when treating themselves. “Drug products are undergoing design revisions, giving changing patient populations user-friendly options,” explains Don Singer, Global Lead Quality Manager, Microbiology R&D, GlaxoSmithKline. “It is not just pills and tablets any more. We are seeing many inhalable and intranasal products, and parenterals are no longer just delivered directly by standard syringes and from vials, especially in the oncology field.

2012 Compliance Packages of the Year Announced by HCPC

The Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (HCPC) awarded the winners of its annual Compliance Package of the Year competition at RxAdherence 2013, the organization’s annual conference on patient adherence and compliance prompting packaging issues.
Named 2012 Compliance Package of the Year, Avive from MWV Healthcare, is a patient-customized, multi-medication, 30-day dosing system.

From the Editors' Desk

Schreiner MediPharm Wins Award for Unique Pharma-Comb SL Label

Schreiner MediPharm, (Blauvelt, NY) recently won the TLMI (Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute) Award for its Pharma-Comb SL label. The Pharma-Comb SL label won first place for excellence in technical achievement in the Flat Screen Printing...
Actavis Inc. Issues Recall of Fentanyl Transdermal System Lots

Actavis Inc. (Morristown, NJ) announced a voluntary recall to the wholesale and retail levels only of 18 lots of Fentanyl Transdermal System 25 mcg/hour C-II patches manufactured for Actavis by Corium International in the United States.
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Simulations Focus on Package Usability

In October, Michigan State University (MSU) and Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging debuted their new program, the Healthcare Packaging Immersion Experience (HcPIE). The event brought together healthcare professionals, medical packaging experts from...
Universal Tray Enhances Product Protection, Reduces Package Weight

Perfecseal, a Bemis Company, has been awarded the Gold Medal, Roll Fed–Medical Category, in the Society of Plastic Engineers (SPE) 2010 Thermoforming Competition. Collaborating with Ascent, a division of Stryker, the two companies redesigned the...
AirPouch FastWrap from Automated Packaging Systems Produces Air-Filled Wrap on Demand

At Pack Expo International this week Automated Packaging Systems debuted its new protective wrapping system for producing cellular cushioning wrap and air-filled tubes. Designed to produce material on demand at packaging stations, the portable,...