INTERPHEX Featured Articles

1. Aseptic Blow-Fill-Seal: A Sustainable Process For Packaging Pharma Liquids 10/17/2018

   Aseptic blow-fill-seal systems for packaging pharmaceutical liquids incorporate materials and processes that provide critical advantages for sustainable initiatives.

2. The Role Of Pharmaceutical Packaging Partners In Times Of Growth

   As with the pharma industry, packagers are challenged to grow through innovation, by providing formats that satisfy pharma's expectations while delivering the convenience demanded by today's consumer.

3. Advantages Of Purchasing Used Equipment And Investment Recovery

   Investment in new pharmaceutical equipment remains a large and complex commitment for any size manufacturing facility.

4. Four Reasons For The Rise In Blister Packaging

   Explore the factors that are driving blister packaging to the forefront of pharmaceutical packaging, and at an even faster rate than its current growth.

5. Help Keep Pharmaceuticals Safe: Metal Detection Overview And Guidelines

   Although metal detection has been in use to identify the presence of ferrous, nonferrous, or stainless-steel contaminants for decades in the pharmaceutical industry, it has not been widespread.

6. Beyond Sachets: Customized Sorbent Solutions For Increased Packaging Flexibility

   As the healthcare market continues to grow and evolve, sorbent (desiccant, oxygen absorber, hydrocarbon adsorbent) manufacturers are faced with developing new sorbent formats that will allow placement flexibility while continuing to positively impact the drug or device stability profile. By Adrian Possumato, Multisorb Technologies

7. Challenges In Choosing The Right Sorbent

   Maintaining drug stability, quality, shelf life, safety, and efficacy is often achieved by using a sorbent to manage moisture, remove oxygen, or eliminate volatiles in the drug or device packaging headspace. With so much at stake, sorbent insertion is a critical step in the pharmaceutical packaging process.  Unfortunately for manufacturers, automated insertion can create challenges on the packaging line when not properly implemented by a reputable supplier that can offer technical expertise and customized solutions.  By Adrian Possumato, Vice President, Healthcare Packaging

8. Meeting Technical Challenges In Desiccant Dispensing

   Christopher Garrod knew he would need a desiccant in his sample bottles of Vimovo, but after speaking with his R&D team, Garrod, a senior engineer on the Packaging Process Execution Team for AstraZeneca, immediately realized it would present a unique challenge. Vimovo, a fixed-dose combination of enteric-coated naproxen and immediate release esomeprazole, is a highly moisture sensitive drug. The atmospheric exposure limits for the desiccant were a lot tighter than any product they had packaged before, presenting Garrod with his first challenge

9. Deconstructing The Blue Dye Leak Test Method

   Blister package manufacturing for tablets and capsules has process and material parameters that are unique to each product. Barrier properties of blister packaging are primarily designed to eliminate moisture ingress, a result of H2O molecules passing through micro leaks over extended periods of time. By Oliver Stauffer, PTI Packaging and Inspection Systems