Manufacturing

Hallie Forcinio is packing editor for Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, editorhal@sbcglobal.net.

Articles

Going digital can produce high-quality, full-color labels at potentially lower cost.

Printing Digital Labels

Makers of temperature-sensitive products constantly seek to ensure proper conditions during shipping and storage.

Protecting the Cold Chain

Exhibitors' products prevent counterfeiting, provide child resistance, protect product quality, and improve packaging-line efficiency.

Interphex Showcases Packaging Innovations

Many radio frequency identification projects are moving beyond the pilot stage, supported by new hardware and software tools.

RFID Moves Forward

Security, the environment, aging populations, the bio-boom, and cost control are just a few of the drivers that will influence pharmaceutical packaging for the remainder of this decade.

Packaging Trends

A hybrid system using paper and electronic pedigrees will be needed.

Tagging Tools to Provide E-Pedigree

Interphex provided an opportunity to examine the latest pharmaceutical packaging concepts and packaging machines.

Interphex Focuses on Counterfeit Prevention

Bringing Exubera to market requires extensive collaboration by Pfizer, Nektar Therapeutics, West Pharmaceutical Services Tech Group, and Bespak.

Special Packaging Delivers Inhaled Insulin

PDA's Technical Report No. 39 provides guidance for protecting temperature-sensitive products.

Maintaining the Cold Chain

Although patient compliance problems have been receiving attention for at least a decade, many medications are still dispensed in bottles that contain a supply intended to last days or weeks and require considerable effort on the part of the patient or caregiver to keep track of the dosing schedule. As a result, when it comes to consistently taking the right dose at the right time for the duration of a prescription, many consumers don't do a very good job.