At PMMI's August 2 Packaging Today & Tomorrow, Partners in Packaging event in Wilmington, DE, Miyares offered his "five ongoing trends and three fearless forecasts." He said, "At least eight U.S. states have active programs to recover about $1 billion worth of unused prescription drugs from nursing homes, hospitals, and healthcare facilitators. Some legislators, looking for ways to lower [the] cost of drugs to consumers, think that requiring drugs to be packed in multicell blister packs, or regimen packs, is the way to do this."
The potential impact of a move from traditional bottles to multipacks, he noted, would be a "major disruption of pharmaceutical packaging operations," though he pointed out the probability of this was "less than one percent in the next ten years."
The potential impact of a move from traditional bottles to multipacks, he noted, would be a "major disruption of pharmaceutical packaging operations," though he pointed out the probability of this was "less than one percent in the next ten years."
