Packaging & Product Protection Featured Articles
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Integrating Quality Control Tools Into Print Workflow Automation Solutions
6/6/2016
Artwork must be right the first time and every time. Even a simple mistake has the potential to be catastrophic, resulting in product recalls, fines, write-offs and potential lawsuits.
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Changes To The Opioid Labeling Regulation
5/13/2016
FDA is revising warnings and safety information for immediate-release (IR) opioid labeling. The goal is to inform doctors better about the risks of opioids and how to prescribe these drugs safely.
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How Do You Inspect Packaging Of Bottles, Cans And Cylinders?
5/13/2016
To ensure the package is error free, progressive companies now use automated proofreading solutions throughout the design and printing of the package and label.
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Ensuring Bar Code Accuracy From Packaging To The Patient
5/13/2016
For pharmaceutical companies, a barcode helps to assure the origins of the drugs, which in turn helps in minimizing the possibility of a genuine drugs being considered sub-standard or counterfeit.
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BioMarin Transforms Supplier M&A Into Joint Ventures
4/25/2016
To navigate supplier and CMO consolidation, Isaac Young, senior director, supply chain operations, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc., offers some advice: Approach your outsourcing relationships like joint ventures. “As you have this greater engagement between two companies,” says Young, “you’re likely to enter an interdependent relationship. Why not acknowledge that rather than try to power-play or position one another?”
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New Guidelines Offer Menu Of Standard Sterile Packaging Tests
4/5/2016
A package protects the product throughout the life cycle, and package integrity is a significant pocket of risk that can be mitigated. Packaging integrity can literally be a matter of life or death.
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How To Streamline Serialization Implementations With Your CMOs
3/10/2016
Managing CMO serialization implementation is a multifaceted process that requires thorough review and planning across functional teams to best understand all the components necessary for success. Thus, it is important for companies to recognize the barriers they will likely encounter during serialization implementation with CMOs — and plan accordingly.
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At Biogen, Three Keys To Outsourcing
3/2/2016
Thomas Holmes, senior director for Global External Manufacturing, Biogen, says: (a) cost is not the strategic driver in CMO selection; (b) “dual sourcing” is revenue independent; and (c) the time from drug approval to market launch is all of 48 to 72 hours.
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Drug Serialization: Key To Protecting Patients In U.S. And International Markets
2/12/2016
Evolving track-and-trace rules in key markets are driving pharmaceutical industry demand for adaptable contractors with regional expertise.
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How Program Management Streamlines The Introduction Of Track & Trace
1/5/2016
They're multinational, they're multitasking — and they must coordinate a mass of data and decisions if they are to successfully roll out millions of products for worldwide sales. This white paper will detail how a program management system coordinates and manages data of tasks being carried out by all individuals in every department of your company, even those on the other side of the globe.