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Adherence/Delivery
FDA's Hamburg's resignation
She served almost six years, juggled the agency’s varied responsibilities effectively, and her successor will continue to face varied challenges.
March 19, 2015
Eric F. Greenberg is a Contributing Editor and Legal & Regulatory columnist for Packaging World and Healthcare Packaging.
Package Design
Are biohazard pressure bags meeting federal regulations?
Flexible packaging company encourages medical labs to seek independent testing to ensure compliance.
January 28, 2015
Flexible packaging company Vonco encourages medical laboratories to seek independent testing to encourage compliance.
Materials
Ensuring product integrity and visibility across the supply chain
PDA’s Berlin conference sheds light on manufacturing and logistics, serialization, and regulatory pressure for temperature control of warehouses and shipments.
January 23, 2015
PDA’s Berlin conference sheds light on manufacturing and logistics, serialization, and regulatory pressure for temperature control of warehouses and shipments.
Pharmaceuticals
Accessibility of medical packaging: learning from people with impairments
Manufacturers must be aware of the wide range of impairments that can affect consumers, which means one design of accessible packaging may not be suitable for all.
January 22, 2015
A range of the medical packaging was tested, to represent the most commonly used types of openings.
Pharmaceuticals
Biologics and USP’s General Chapters on Container Closure Systems
Biologics present new challenges for packaging systems.
January 19, 2015
Desmond Hunt, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Liaison, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
Pharmaceuticals
What is considered a drug?
FDA Warning Letters provide reminder of the basics of drug regulation.
January 8, 2015
Eric F. Greenberg is a Contributing Editor and Legal & Regulatory columnist for Packaging World and Healthcare Packaging.
Pharmaceuticals
Test your cold chain IQ
True or false questions about the handling of biologics and drugs in the supply chain.
January 7, 2015
Kevin O'Donnell is Vice President, Cold Chain Standards, Practices & Compliance at BioLife Solutions, Inc., and is a Contributing Editor for Healthcare Packaging. He is internationally recognized as an industry thought leader, author and advocate on matters related to pharmaceutical packaging and distribution practices.
Pharmaceuticals
DSCSA answers are needed
FDA is not addressing the questions people are asking.
January 7, 2015
Dirk Rodgers, who contributed to Healthcare Packaging’s Pharmaceutical Serialization Playbook, is an independent consultant and founder of RxTrace.
Pharmaceuticals
A common-sense perspective on UDI and DSCSA
In this Q&A, Chip Meyers, VP, Corporate Public Affairs, UPS, offers perspective on serialization and track and trace for medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
November 17, 2014
In this Q&A, Chip Meyers, VP, Corporate Public Affairs, UPS, offers perspective on serialization and track and trace for medical devices and pharmaceuticals.
Pharmaceuticals
UDI vs the DSCSA
The FDA's enforcement of these two regulations could be different, because of where they originated.
November 3, 2014
Dirk Rodgers, who contributed to Healthcare Packaging’s Pharmaceutical Serialization Playbook, is an independent consultant and founder of RxTrace.
Pharmaceuticals
One trillion dollars!
See you in Chicago for Pharma Expo’s debut.
September 24, 2014
Jim Butschli, Healthcare Packaging Editor
Adherence/Delivery
Apps could play role in improved patient adherence
Could medication adherence gains be achieved as a result of our fondness for smartphones, tablets, wearables, smartwatches, and the like?
September 15, 2014
Could medication adherence gains be achieved as a result of our fondness for smartphones, tablets, wearables, smartwatches, and the like?
Materials
FDA’s growing global focus faces language barriers
As FDA becomes more globally focused, drug complaints and adverse event reporting pose “cultural” challenges, as do inspections.
September 11, 2014
As FDA becomes more globally focused, drug complaints and adverse effect reporting pose “cultural” challenges, as do inspections.
Materials
USP to roll out information chapters on Good Distribution Practices
Five new general chapter standards related to GDP to become official next year, when three new chapters will be proposed.
September 8, 2014
Desmond Hunt, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Liaison, U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention (USP)
Labeling/Printing
The case for and against RFID in pharma
Reaching necessary read accuracies remains a challenge in pharmaceuticals, but RFID could still prove useful.
August 29, 2014
Dirk Rodgers, who contributed to Healthcare Packaging’s Pharmaceutical Serialization Playbook, is founder of RxTrace.
Pharmaceuticals
'Cold Chain Chronicles' delivers thought-provoking insights
New book authored by Kevin O’Donnell provides practitioner’s outside-the-box perspectives on the importance of temperature-sensitive drug stewardship.
August 18, 2014
'Cold Chain Chronicles' delivers thought-provoking insights
Materials
Counterfeit Report says Alibaba U.S. IPO ‘has some shady baggage’
Report asks if U.S. investors will fund the global proliferation of counterfeit goods?
July 15, 2014
Report asks if U.S. investors will fund the global proliferation of counterfeit goods?
Pharmaceuticals
Congress should have mandated randomization
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.
July 9, 2014
Dirk Rodgers, who contributed to Healthcare Packaging’s Pharmaceutical Serialization Playbook, is an independent consultant and founder of RxTrace.
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