Almac Pharma Services business unit has expanded its established commercial packaging operations with a $10m investment in a new 100,000sq ft commercial facility in Audubon, PA, US. 

Novartis has planned to update the Rasilez's labelling to include contraindications against combined use with a number of products.

Pfizer has voluntarily recalled 14 lots of Lo/Ovral-28 and 14 lots of Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets in the US due to possibility of inexact tablet counts or out of sequence tablets.

Biogen Idec and Elan have announced the FDA approval of a product label change for TYSABRI that will help enable individual benefit risk assessment for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Chesapeake Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Packaging, has installed a new Vijuk MV-2011 Large Format Folder at its Hicksville, Long Island facility in New York.

Systech International, a provider of packaging execution systems for the pharmaceutical industry, has entered into an agreement with Zetes.

Chesapeake Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Packaging is set to take over Cortegra Group from Menasha.Cortegra Group is a US based producer of pharmaceutical leaflets and labels and provides packaging and labeling services to the healthcare and related industries.

Healthnostics is set to launch fill-and-seal machine MicroFill-2160 which is designed to produce 2,160 medical pads per minute.MicroFill-2160 has a small footprint, requiring less floor space, fewer operators and less energy consumption than competitor machines, claims Healthnostics.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is set to commence a review of the labelling and packaging regulatory framework for prescription medicines, over the counter medicines and complementary medicines.

Marck Biosciences is set to introduce Paracetamol IV in plastic package, which is manufactured by using Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) technology, under Febramol IV brand name in India.