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Identifying Key Pharmaceutical Packaging Factors

Understanding your product, material, machinery, and transport needs will help manufacturers address the challenges now unfolding in the pharmaceutical industry.

Understanding your product, material, machinery, and transport needs will help manufacturers address the challenges now unfolding in the pharmaceutical industry.
Understanding your product, material, machinery, and transport needs will help manufacturers address the challenges now unfolding in the pharmaceutical industry.

In the global pharmaceutical industry, the efficient transport of drugs not only depends on the means of storage and mobility but primarily on the packaging of the drug. However, there are a few factors common to pharmaceutical packaging irrespective of the product’s classification.

The packaging standard required in the pharmaceutical industry is superior to other industries because pharma packagers need to maintain product standards and quality, which includes the requirements of uniformity, purity, side effects, shelf life, safety, integrity, and efficiency, among others.

Manufacturers must possess an in-depth understanding of every characteristic of the product, including formulation, dosage form, physical and chemical properties. That information needs to be amalgamated with manufacturing, packaging, marketing, distribution, product end use and profitability projections.

Here are some basic factors to account for in the pharmaceutical packaging industry:

Uniformity. Refers to the quantity between and within batches of products encompassing the impurities, excipients and ingredients. The term refers to minimizing variation between the items or doses, etc. However, variations in uniformity post storage are related to the changes in the drug/product, environment or the packing of the product. Uniformity is the foundation of batch processing and manufacturing, and packaging plays a major role.

Purity. Refers not only to the percentage of the active ingredient but also the level of impurities. Similar to how innovative analytical techniques have made the identification of impurities practical, their elimination has been aided by modern chemical techniques. Pharma packaging helps prevent the drug from exposure to impurities.

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