indsutry news

West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. (Lionville, Pa.) has announced the company’s next generation Ready Pack system, which includes sterile and ready-to-use Daikyo Crystal Zenith resin 2mL or 5mL vials, NovaPure quality standard stoppers, and Flip-Off seals. The new system meets the need for a ready-to-use container closure system suitable for sensitive drug products and was developed to meet the need for clean, low extractable, inert storage of sensitive biologic products during the research and development process.

Supply chain leaders meeting at the GS1 Healthcare US Workgroup Forum in Chicago announced that the tools are in place for industry-wide implementation of the GS1 Global Location Number by the 2010 GLN Sunrise date of Dec. 31, 2010.