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20 Years of Compliance Packaging

Compliance formats have advanced with innovations in package design,materials, and machinery.
Compliance packaging has made great strides in the past 20 years, as the health industry has focused attention on promoting the safe and effective use by patients of their medications.
Challenged to ensure that the package going into the home is both child-resistant and easily accessible to seniors, suppliers and drug manufacturers have delivered a progression of innovation in package interfaces and structural designs.
With compliance formats, drugs are provided in unit-dose blis
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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.
HCPC’s Compliance Package of the Year competition has been an annual event since 1995 and recognizes the most innovative pharmaceutical packages designed to improve patient adherence.
This year’s winners are:
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Pharma Tech Readies Line for New Nasal Delivery Device

Custom filling, line automation, and humidity control are developed as OptiNose prepares for an NDA filing.
As an outsourcing partner with pharmaceutical companies, Pharm Tech Industries (PTI; www.pharma-tech.com) often develops complete solutions for customers in providing turnkey contract manufacturing and packaging services.
The Royston, GA–based CMO and packager draws on a staff of in-house engineers to accomplish a technology transfer and to meet custom requirements with first-of-kind solutions.
For the OptiNose Delivery System, PTI is developing a complex filling and packag
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Building Trial Adherence With Packaging

As the cost of running clinical trials climbs, compliance formats have gained favor for addressing persistently high non-adherence rates.
Patient non-adherence is a prevalent concern in clinical trials and one reason why clinical trial costs are on the rise.
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20 Years of Contract Packaging

Successful contract packagers have become closer partners with manufacturer clients and have helped them implement new package formats.
Contract packagers’ business ebbs and flows with the fortunes and priorities of their pharmaceutical manufacturer customer base.
When pharma companies are launching new products, contract packagers’ expertise and technology can bring them to market quickly and at lower cost.
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Supplying Packaging More Efficiently

In a distribution agreement, CCL Label Inc. and ACG Pharmapack look to tighten the supply chain.
The recently announced distribution partnership between CCL Industries and ACG Pharmapack (www.acg-pharmapack.com) will help manufacturers streamline supply channels, establish uniformity of materials across regions, and reduce costs. The agreement between the two global suppliers of packaging components will also support development of new functional structures for pharmaceutical and medical device packaging, the companies say.
As the exclusive distributor for the U.S.
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Rx Pharma-Pack Launches Contract Packaging Services

An IMA Safe Uniline supports small batch and full production volumes.
Rx Pharma-Pack Inc.
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Child-Resistant Packaging Required For Products Containing Imidazolines

Manufacturers of eye drops and nasal products will have up to two years to develop the special packaging.
Pharmaceutical companies will be updating packaging for more than 40 commonly used products following a Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) rule requiring child-resistant (CR) packaging for product containing imidazolines.
The regulation impacts all prescription and OTC medications with the equivalent of 0.08 mg or more of imidazolines, a family of drugs that perform as vasoconstrictors when applied topically.
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Praxis Expands Into Primary Packaging With New Bottling Line

Integrated with Praxis’s secondary packaging base, the line flexibly accommodates high and low volume requirements
Praxis Packaging Solutions (www.praxispackaging.com) is adding the final touches to its first primary fill equipment line for providing vertically integrated packaging services for OTC and pharmaceutical customers.
Designed to work flexibly with Praxis’s secondary packaging capability, the high-speed tablet filling line supports compliant, efficient filling and packaging of a multitude of SKUs, as well as high volume projects.
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Case Study in Sustainability

Dividella measures the impact on the environment and on costs of its NeoTOP solution compared with traditional packaging
In a presentation at Pharmapack North America on ‘Effectively Measuring Sustainability In Pharmaceutical Packaging,” Dividella AG (www.dividella.ch) highlighted the benefits of its NeoTOP solution for sustainability and cost savings.
The Körber-Medipak Group company reported on a case study comparing two packages for six syringes delivered to a hospital: a mono material NeoTOP carton automatically formed and erected from two pieces of flat cardboard on a Dividella packaging machine, and traditional ther
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