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Top 7 trends in healthcare packaging
Top 7 trends in healthcare packaging
Dec 13, 2016
Much more is required of packaging for pharmaceuticals and medical devices these days. In 2016, healthcare packaging professionals...
Are you ready for changes to the USP Packaging Chapters?
Are you ready for changes to the USP Packaging Chapters?
May 26, 2016
If you are using a particular plastic packaging system for a drug already on the market, its use is most likely USP compliant under the recently finalized USP Chapter Containers-Plastics. But when will you need to subject that same plastic...
GS1 working ahead of mandates
Jan 20, 2016
No national requirement for pharmaceutical track and trace has materialized to supersede California’s 2015 law, and Unique Device Identification has just been proposed in draft form.With U.S. mandates slowly emerging, pharmaceutical and medical...
ASTM supports PACPAC
Dec 20, 2015
By Erik SwainAn ASTM International (West Conshohocken, PA) task group has begun work on developing standards that could be used...
Striving toward a global code
Dec 20, 2015
To help prevent counterfeiting and to minimize medical dispensing errors around the world, auto-ID standards need harmonizing.Automatic identification technologies involving bar codes and RFID are being looked at as powerful weapons in the fight...
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