FEATURED ARTICLES
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Protecting Today’s Biologics With Gelled Phase Change Materials
As the biologics market continues to grow exponentially, the limitations of today’s thermal packaging utilizing phase change materials could have a considerable impact on the timely delivery of safe and effective medication. Gelled PCM eliminate these limitations and offer a more dependable future for the biopharma industry.
WHITE PAPERS & CASE STUDIES
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A Specialized Pharmaceutical Kit Assembly Solution
Company launches a fast acting Insulin injector pen pharmaceutical kit into the U.S. market by utilizing the new bespoke Semi-automated Packaging System (SAPS) at Almac’s U.S. commercial packaging facility.
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Beyond Item-Level Serialization: Extending Traceability Schemes To Secondary And Tertiary Packaging
Falsified and counterfeit medicines are a chronic problem for the pharmaceutical sector, with a third of all shipments in the worst affected parts of the world estimated to contain fake medicines.
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The Hidden Challenges Of Pharmaceutical Serialization
The true extent of the counterfeiting is unknown, since no global study has ever been carried out, but according to WHO estimates, up to 15% of all medicines are counterfeit.
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The EU Falsified Medicines Directive – Concerted Action To Secure The pharmaceutical supply Chain
In recent years the production of, and trade in, falsified medicines – both research based and generic – has grown to become a global illegal business. At the borders of the EU alone over 30 million counterfeit medicines have been seized during the last five years, and the statistics regarding medicines supplied online are equally disturbing: according to the European Alliance for Safe Medicines, 62% of medicines purchased online are fake or substandard.
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Gain Greater Flexibility In Pharma Packaging
In numerous pharma companies, the following problem is being posed: shrinking lot sizes are constantly worsening the ratio of packaging system set-up time to running time. By Dr. Ralph Blum, Mediseal GmbH, Schloss Holte
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Late Stage Customization For Small Lots Of Blister Packaging
Two years ago, Elaiapharm undertook the packaging of an important new solid dose product (Cipralex, an antidepressant) to be launched across a large number of international markets. The product itself is an ODT – orally dispersible tablet – formulation packed in child resistant cold form blisters.