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Industry News: Page 302
Regulatory
Security and U.S. trade shows
International attendance at U.S. expositions and conferences has taken a hit the last few years due to Homeland Security stemming from 9-11-01. Typically, international visitors decide to attend a show three to four months preceding the event. Visa applications to travel to the U.S. from countries such as China or India can take as long as nine months. So, a packaging machinery or materials company in the U.S. that markets to global prospects has to find new ways to reach these international customers. That heightens the importance of your Web site, and the use of new technology such as Webcasts (see next article).
June 10, 2005
Regulatory
What skills will you need to succeed?
Survey respondents identify knowledge of validation and regulatory issues, as well as materials expertise, as critical.
June 10, 2005
Regulatory
Optical character recognition system
June 10, 2005
Regulatory
Drug import bill could speed RFID adoption
Pfizer and Purdue Pharma are already testing RFID. This year, the Senate will likely pass legislation making it legal for wholesalers to import pharma packaging using RFID tags.
May 10, 2005
Regulatory
Why so little RFID progress in pharma?
If the use of RFID technology makes sense anywhere in the field of packaging, the one place where it should be recognized as an obvious problem solver is in drug packaging. So why has the use of RFID in pharma become so bogged down in unnecessary complexity? Let's first consider the nature of the pharmaceutical industry. Making and packaging drugs is both complex and capital-intensive. It's also heavily regulated and policed by many. On the drug manufacturing side, batch and quality control have long benefited from the use of bar codes that bring order to what otherwise might be chaos. And when it comes to packaging and distribution—to either consumers in the store or professionals at a healthcare facility—we've found ways of promoting brand identity without jeopardizing our ability to comply with labeling regulations. That's the good news. The bad news is that the pharmaceutical industry has had to contend with a grey market for both branded and generic drugs and a black market for diverted drugs. It's also in a quandary over the efficacy of some drugs. Throw in the fact that in some countries the drug supply is fraught with local circumstances involving theft and diversion, and you get a feel for what the drug industry is like.
May 10, 2005
Regulatory
Ross Labs' speaker extols RFID's benefits
Mike Wallace of Abbott Laboratories' Ross Laboratories Division offered multiple RFID insights, including his company's work with Wal-Mart.
May 10, 2005
Regulatory
The changing landscape of pharmaceutical packaging
With nearly 40 years of experience with pharmaceutical and healthcare packagers, contract packager (CP) Anderson Packaging has its finger on the pulse of issues and trends. The following insights come from Justin Schroeder, AP's marketing and business development manager.
May 10, 2005
Regulatory
Gas prices and healthcare packaging
Gas prices continue to climb. A good survival strategy for truckers is waiting for trailer loads to be full before hauling. Unless, of course, the trailer contains sensitive pharmaceuticals. Clearly, the implications are that the packaging of temperature- and humidity-sensitive drugs and the monitoring of their shipping conditions are becoming key issues. Sandy Cook, engineer and president of Thermal Packaging Solutions, an independent consulting firm in New Jersey, agrees. Cook is seeing changes brought on by the high cost of transportation in general. He has been asked to look into shipping pharmaceutical products by ocean-going vessels, a slow, but cost-effective method for United States suppliers to make the product in Europe or Asia and transport it back to the U.S. for sale.
May 10, 2005
Regulatory
How your company compares to the competition
April's Healthcare Packaging is only our fourth issue. One of the strengths of this new medium is the interactive nature of the experience. We can ask you a few questions and get answers in a matter of hours. Take a look at yourself and your peers from research compiled from our first three issues.
April 10, 2005
Regulatory
Insights into pharma and RFID frequencies, and RFID's 'Project Jumpstart' shortcomings
Shahram Moradpour, CEO of RFID consultancy Cleritec, notes, "There are a lot of pharmaceutical companies leaning toward high frequency (HF)," referring to 13.56 MHz radio waves. "HF can often be a better solution than current UHF technology for item-level tagging. A drug manufacturer isn't as concerned about a $1 RFID tag on bottled medicine that costs dozens of dollars. It's more important for them to track the pedigree of the product." Speaking of frequencies, ultra-high frequency (868 MHz to 915 MHz) shortcomings (such as low read rates) were uncovered during the Project Jumpstart pilot, conducted by pharmaceutical stalwarts such as Pfizer, Abbott Laboratories, and Cardinal Health.
April 10, 2005
Medical Device/Packaging
Speakers address counterfeiting, E-labeling
'Hot-button' points from the March 23-24 medical device packaging conference in San Antonio.
April 10, 2005
Regulatory
Statshots
Medical packaging demand rising
March 10, 2005
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