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Logistics & cold chain packaging: Page 101
Pharmaceuticals
The 'Church' of safe transport packaging
Cold chain is a term that typically describes the distribution channel used to ship drugs in the refrigerated temperature range of 2ºC to 8ºC. But Edward Church (shown), executive director of the International Safe Transit Assn., explains, "I would refer to this environment as the temperature-controlled supply chain, not just the cold chain, because we work with a variety of temperatures, although the 2º to 8º Celsius range is used most prevalently with pharmaceuticals and biological products." In this article, Church identifies factors to consider when shipping temperature-sensitive pharmaceutical and biological products.
September 19, 2008
Pharmaceuticals
Pharmaceutical supply chain events in Philadelphia
Summit, publishers of Packaging World and Healthcare Packaging magazines, will serve as a media partner for LogiPharma USA 2008, a pharmaceutical supply chain and logistics event. LogiPharma will take place Sept. 15-18, 2008 at Loews Philadelphia Hotel. Summit will also be a media partner at the 6th Annual Global Forum Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals, scheduled at the Philadelphia Convention Center will Sept. 22-25, 2008.
July 31, 2008
Supply Chain
Anti-counterfeiting tops agenda at Americas Technology Summit
The task of securing the supply chain and the need to adopt a layered approach using overt and covert security features often seems overwhelming; companies don't know where to start or what technologies to invest in. That was a key message taken from anti-counterfeiting sessions at the 2008 Americas Technology Summit, an event focusing on brand protection and sustainability held in San Juan, Puerto Rico April 16-17. Americas Technology Summit was sponsored by National Label Co. and MWV .
June 15, 2008
Supply Chain
National Geographic shines light on 'dark trade'
Could illicit trade--involving everything from handbags to humans to counterfeit pharmaceuticals to weapons-grade uranium--be an even greater threat to our way of life than terrorism? Dr. Mois•s Na•m, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, believes that could be the case. A new National Geographic Special, Illicit: The Dark Trade, which aired April 16 on PBS television stations, estimated the global value of this trade to be as high as $3 trillion, with some assessments believing it represents 10 percent of the world's trade. As the accompanying photo of counterfeit drugs seized in Bogota, Columbia, shows, counterfeit packaging is part of this illicit trade. (Photo by Richard Numeroff/©2008 National Geographic Television.)
June 15, 2008
Pharmaceuticals
Implementing a brand protection program
David Howard (shown), director product protection global brand integrity at Johnson & Johnson, spoke about how to implement a brand-protection program. "The first step in any organization is to know thyself," Howard advised. "Where are your products made? How do you distribute? Where do you market? Are you local? Regional? Global? Who touches your products?" Without detailed answers to such questions, solutions being considered or the ones already being implemented may be misguided, Howard told the audience at the first Brand-Protection Packaging Forum.
June 15, 2008
Adherence/Delivery
Injectable pharmaceutical processing and packaging evolves
Through the years, there has been little change in the appearance of packaging materials and components in delivery systems for injectable drugs. The material science and manufacturing technologies that go into the creation of these systems, on the other hand, have undergone significant advancement. In this article, guest author Fran DeGrazio of West reports on the drivers behind the manufacturing systems for injectable drugs, and what can be expected in the future.
June 15, 2008
Inspection
Beating the e-Pedigree deadline
The January 2009 e-Pedigree deadline set by California may have been pushed back two years, but that didn't stop Biogen Idec from forging ahead with a solution. The March 25 decision by the California Board of Pharmacy to push back the state's e-Pedigree deadline to January 1, 2011 (its second two-year delay) gives the overwhelming majority of the pharmaceutical companies in the U.S. new breathing room to meet the anti-counterfeiting measures laid out by the Golden State. But those same foot-draggers are now are at risk for being awarded the Black Hat worn by bad guys. That allows the small handful of companies who have solved the packaging serialization puzzle to claim the competitive and public relations benefits that come to those who wear the White Hats.
June 15, 2008
Supply Chain
Temperature monitoring label
Defining global track-and-trace standards for the pharmaceutical industry is a key goal of the Sept. 24, 2014 event in Frankfurt.
June 15, 2008
Supply Chain
Temperature-controlled shipper
Congress should have mandated randomization of drug serial numbers, but they did not, so it is up to each manufacturer to recognize the importance it would bring to the protection of their brands and of the supply chain.
June 15, 2008
Pharmaceuticals
Taking the temperature of the Canadian cold chain
Biopharmaceutical growth, excursions, and monitoring responsibilities are key issues for shippers of temperature-sensitive products. "One of the trends in cold chain distribution is the growing presence of biologics and pharmaceuticals that require more temperature-sensitive handling and monitoring. They are more expensive and fragile products, and as more of these enter the market, it increasingly behooves industry to pay close attention to their careful handling and temperature monitoring." That assessment comes from Allan Reynolds, vice president, industry and member relations for CAPDM, the Canadian Assn. for Pharmacy Distribution Management.
June 13, 2008
Pharmaceuticals
Insights into Wal-Mart's Specialty Pharmacy
Most of Wal-Mart's 3,700 U.S. retail pharmacies stock between 800 and 2,000 prescription drug varieties. A typical monthly prescription costs $55 to $160. Wal-Mart's Specialty Pharmacy (WMSP) in Lake Mary, FL, on the other hand, carries 275 to 300 drugs, but a monthly prescription can cost thousands of dollars. That's because these are complex, specialty drugs for chronic diseases. About 85% of these require refrigeration from the point they're manufactured to the "last mile" where they reach the patient. Shipping containers and materials must maintain complex, costly prescriptions in the 2ºC to 8ºC (36ºF to 46ºF) temperature range. Now in test: sustainable packaging.
June 3, 2008
Supply Chain
Ipack-Ima to focus on world hunger
Noting that some 850 million people around the world are starving, Ipack-Ima CEO Guido Corbella told journalists at an April 25 press briefing during interpack in Dusseldorf, Germany, that an international summit on the subject of world hunger would be part of Ipack-Ima 2009. Supported by the United Nations and the Italian Ministry for Agricultural, Environmental and Food Policies, the proposed summit is aimed at identifying contributions that food production and packaging systems can make in a global effort to address the problem of world hunger.
April 28, 2008
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