Innovation in Precision Cleaning –Tougher Residues Need More Effective Detergents
By Michael Moussourakis, Alconox The pharmaceutical industry at large is ever expanding, ever improving, and ever changing. Whether this means gentler enteric tablet coatings, more effective creams, lotions and ointments, purer botanical extracts and resins, biosimilars, [...]
Laws & Effect: Streamlining for Combination Products: Please, May I Have Some More?
Sure, FDA has proposed to help speed their reviews of new products that combine categories, but will it really get out of its own way? By Eric F. Greenberg, Healthcare Packaging LAWS FDA proposed some [...]
Improving OEE in blister packaging
By Richard Norris, Prodieco Pharmaceutical packaging centers are feeling immense pressure to improve performance and output, as the drive for increased OEE (overall equipment effectiveness) continues unabated across pharmaceutical production plants. Engineering departments are also pushing [...]
Pharma Distributors Fund Alliance Against Opioid Abuse (AAOA)
In response to Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ new opioid task force targeting drug manufacturers and distributors, the pharmaceutical industry has launched a national education and awareness initiative. By Jim Chrzan, Healthcare Packaging Magazine It’s no [...]
Attendance Soars for this Spring’s PACK EXPO East
With attendance on the rise and a multitude of new show features, PACK EXPO East (April 16-18, Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia) is a must-attend event for packaging professionals. Less than four weeks away, PACK EXPO [...]
Applying a Sustainable Sustainability Strategy
By Charles Murray, PPi Technologies Group Sustainability is a complicated matter even for the most resourced companies in the pharmaceutical and personal care industries. However, companies that pursue an agenda of environmental responsibility stand to both [...]
Top 10: Healthcare Packaging readers rank FDA, package design, cannabis among top articles
Jobs, market forces and innovative packages pique the interest of online readers, who made the following 10 articles published last year the most-read stories on HealthcarePackaging.com in 2017. By Jim Butschli, Healthcare Packaging Magazine Innovative packages [...]
Rethinking the Benefits of Standardization
By Chris Siegele, sales and marketing specialist, Omega Design Corporation Everyone wants a good deal. As consumers, we buy televisions during Black Friday sales, shop the week after Christmas to get 50 to 75 percent [...]
Pot (Policy) Causes (More) Disorientation
By Eric F. Greenberg, Legal and Regulatory Columnist via Packaging World In a realm already marked by inconsistency and uncertainty, the Trump administration makes a surprise change in policy that only adds to the confusion. In [...]
Aggregation: Creating a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Parent-Child Relationship
By Chris Pereira, Pineberry Manufacturing Inc. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), counterfeit drugs and medicines are responsible for more than 700,000 deaths annually with up to an estimated 30 percent of all medication [...]
