Nancy St. Laurent, senior engineer of sterile facilities and packaging systems at Lockwood Greene, tells Healthcare Packaging that her most pressing issue is "getting enough qualified engineers for pharmaceutical packaging operations, including sterile filling. There are very few packaging engineers who are thoroughly knowledgeable of the technologies, of the specific equipment used in pharmaceutical packaging, current Good Manufacturing Practices, and the efforts needed to validate this equipment."
Forecasting the Future
What are the most critical healthcare packaging issues your company faces in the next year or two? What trends do you see developing? Beginning with this issue, packaging professionals offer their perspectives in an ongoing series of articles called "Forecasting the Future."
--By Jim Butschli, Editor
Forecasting the Future
What are the most critical healthcare packaging issues your company faces in the next year or two? What trends do you see developing? Beginning with this issue, packaging professionals offer their perspectives in an ongoing series of articles called "Forecasting the Future."
--By Jim Butschli, Editor