Packaging & Labelling

January 1, 2015 initiates a step-wise supply chain mobilization towards a new era of pharmaceutical product serialization in the US. The US is not the first country to institute measures to control suspect and illegitimate drugs. Several countries around the...

The biopharma market is in the early stages of its next transformation. Clinical pipelines are being filled with increasingly intricate targets and medicines, including next generation cell and gene therapies, an emerging field known as regenerative medicine. The field of...

Blow/Fill/Seal (BFS), Technology is not new in the sterile manufacturing of drug products, but often the true value of this automated advanced aseptic filling method is over looked. BFS has long provided innovative primary packaging solutions for sterile respiratory and...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that “increasing the effectiveness of adherence interventions may have a far greater impact on the health of the world population than any improvement in medical treatment.” If this is true, then packaging...

When unplanned events such as weather delays cause product spoilage, it’s easy for healthcare executives to react by instituting an across-the-board increase in insulation material. But a thorough evaluation of the supply chain may reveal a better solution to manage...

The impact of the DataMatrix code in the pharmaceutical industry has been immense. Offering high standards of data quantity and security, this two-dimensional matrix barcode has become the standard code carrier for a number of regional and country-specific serialization...

San Francisco-based blockchain and IoT company, Chronicled, has launched its CryptoSeal prototype for immutable supply chain provenance and the secure movement of physical assets, such as pharmaceuticals. The tamper-evident CryptoSeals each contain a Near Field Communication...