Traceable Solutions for Medical Packaging - Sponsored Whitepaper

The demand for safety and integrity in the area of medical pack new and significant implications in the past few years. Always a medical packaging has addressed issues like child safety, correc traceability, tampering and diversion of pharmaceuticals. Now, m additional concerns of drug counterfeiting and concerns around new sense of urgency to medical packaging manufacturers and assisted living facilities, doctors' offices and, the individual cons m

for Proponents of unit dose packaging like the Healthcare Complian Council (HCPC), the National Quality Forum (NQF) and others rec packaging plays in safeguarding healthcare. And of course, vario agencies, most notably the Federal Food and Drug Administratio stringent packaging regulations and enforcement.

It is easy to see why the pharmaceutical industry in particular w drivers of new packaging identification technology like RFID, exp means of medical packaging traceability. And although RFID is a technology, it may be a few years before it is a practical solution level. Currently, RFID is being used at the pallet and case level f there are still technology issues to be resolved. We will see bar technologies co-exist for several years.

While safety and compliance are critical issues, the drive to kee control and manufacture and package product in the most effici additional dimension that manufacturers, as well as pharmaceut pharmacies and others must constantly address. Convenience a also drives certain packaging requirements, particularly in a hos assisted living environment.

A Critical Safety Component As individual consumers, we may not recognize the packaging on our quality of healthcare. The opening cap or the familiar blister unit dose packaging on ov medicines may be the extent of our daily interaction packaging, at least for the majority of us. But when issues facing medical packagers as well as patients realized, packaging becomes a very real issue that m traceability a requirement.