Track & Trace

The global pharmaceutical industry is moving towards a serialised world. Increasing threats to patient safety from counterfeited and diverted pharmaceuticals are driving the regulatory activity. In over 40 countries, regulatory mandates to secure the supply chain are already in place or in development.

Through its RFID innovations, Avery Dennison is enabling the connection between the physical and digital worlds, connecting products with the internet of things to improve consumer omnichannel experience.

Traceability is a documented method of identifying where a product or ingredient originated, details on how it was processed, and where it went (who it wa

Innovation seems to be the key to success within the beverage industry. As with any other aspect of new product development, beverage-makers are looking for innovative caps and closures to seal and protect their products while also being appealing to consumers, both aesthetically and in their ease of use. As packaging suppliers offer an ever-increasing array of options to beverage-makers, suppliers of caps and closures are keeping in lockstep by providing a slew of innovative options as well.

Blockchain is a digital ledger that provides a secure way of making and recording transactions, agreements and contracts – anything that needs to be recorded and verified as having taken place.

MW470 is legible, resistant and washable for coding non-returnable and returnable dark glass bottles.

“No compromising on product safety” is the overriding principle for companies of the pharmaceuticals industry and for allied enterprises in the packaging sector

Much more is required of packaging for pharmaceuticals and medical devices these days. In 2016, healthcare packaging professionals managed several emerging regulatory requirements and market demands. We count down to the top trends impacting packaging decisions, as evident in seven of 2016's most popular articles on pharmaceutical and medical device packaging issues.

The comments were made by Xinshi Li, president of the Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine (CAIQ), at a conference in Bordeaux to launch a new Chinese government anti-fraud effort called PEOP, as reported by decanter.com and French news site vitisphere.com.

To track the ants in the colony shown here, University of Lausanne biologist Danielle Mersch glued tiny QR codes to the insects' backs - then filmed them for 41 days. The resulting 2.4 billion data points revealed three types of workers: cleaners, foragers and nurses for the queen and her brood.

As manufacturers await the implementation of the falsified medicines directive, Nadine Lampka product manager, pharma-security at Schreiner MediPharm examines the state of play.

Popular ways to increase space for information without compromising the size of the packaging include the use of extended content labels, booklet labels and leaflets. Extended content labels are an efficient way to add additional information to medicine bottles, allowing patients to peel the labels back to access more information.

Pill dispensing system, regulatory-compliant blister carton, automation in cannabis packaging, and serialization issues highlight Pharma EXPO 2016.