What Is Your Most Recent Security Project and Any Related Challenges?
Published: January 29th, 2008
- Bar coding labeling and lot numbers.
- Bar coding was for customer ease of identification.
- Bar coding sterile prefilled 5-L bags; challenges were readability and standardization.
- Date code and serial number tracking through manufacturing.
- Getting a bar code on a unit-dose suppository to read accurately.
- Have purchased equipment for bar coding and printing.
- Instituted blister packing and went from carton insertion fold to hot-melt glue-sealed containers. Need stretchable triple-laminate foils but have not found good suppliers.
- None—all security is handled in the form of reconciliation and shippers security practices.
- Our security is limited to the master shipping carton used for transit.
- Printing with taggants.
- Right now we only seal our closure to bottles. The outside carton is not sealed.
- Strict inventory control.
- Tagging cartons for the Department of Defense with RFID tags.
- Tamper-evident caps.
- We are just starting down the road where security information will become important.
Source: Verbatim responses to PMP News’s 2007 Security Packaging Survey.