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Sustainability
Counting Down the Top 10 Articles of 2022 - #8: 9 Sustainability Initiatives in Healthcare Packaging: Earth Day 2022
Join us as we look back at the most-read Healthcare Packaging stories of 2022. At #8, we highlight the rise in partnerships targeting sustainability specifically in life sciences and healthcare.
December 26, 2022
Sustainability initiatives in life sciences packaging: cutting carbon from supply chains, reducing waste, and more.
Labeling/Printing
Counting Down the Top 10 Articles of 2022 - #9: Korea-Based Biotech Co. Outfits Nine COVID-19 Test Kit Lines with New Labelers
Join us as we look back at the most-read Healthcare Packaging stories of 2022. At #9: How Bioneer met test kit needs with applicators that apply 300mm-long top labels for product identification and tamper evidence.
December 23, 2022
The company opted for HERMA Basic applicators for nine packaging lines, applying 300mm-long top labels for product identification and tamper evidence, as well as a label on the side of the kit’s box.
Inspection
Siemens Healthineers Brings Millions of Rapid COVID-19 Tests to Market with RRD’s Supply Chain and Warehousing Solutions
During the Omicron peak in January 2022, the company delivered millions of rapid COVID-19 antigen self-tests with help from RRD for inbound receipt, inspection, warehousing, labeling, fulfillment, and more.
December 14, 2022
Photo courtesy of Siemens Healthineers. ©2022 Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc.
Materials
Q&A: Foil Tariffs Pose Imminent Threat to Healthcare Costs, Lead Times
In this Q&A, we talk with PAXXUS' Dwane Hahn about the serious supply chain continuity implications that loom as the packaging community awaits a scheduled decision from the Department of Commerce on December 15, 2022.
November 23, 2022
The price of foil, which encompasses raw aluminum ingots and the manufacturing of the aluminum foil itself, has already gone up significantly. Getty
Packaging/Filling
Quotables and By the Numbers: November 2022
Quotes and stats on clinical trial demographics, modes of transportation, the personalized medicine market, and more...
November 21, 2022
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Refrigerant Gel Packs in Recycle-Ready Film
At PACK EXPO 2022, Lifoam's widely established Propak gels have a new recyclable film package. Applications for the gel bags range from consumer food deliveries to pharmaceutical shipping—anywhere water-based gels are being used.
November 17, 2022
Captured here live on the PACK EXPO floor, the bag has disposal instructions in clear print on the back, using the How2Recycle symbol that consumers are familiar with.
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Pallet-in-Pallet Shipper for Cold Chain Products
At PACK EXPO 2022, a new reusable shipper for temperature-controlled pharmaceuticals was on display. The walls of the XP-4 are designed for ease of assembly and disassembly while offering robust protection for temperature-sensitive payload.
November 9, 2022
Lifoam's XP-4 acts as an exterior shell working with phase change materials (PCMs), water-based gels, and ePUR technology, offering improved insulation compared to traditional polyurethane.
Home
New Recyclable, Compostable Packaging Enters Cold Chain Market
Storopack’s Renature®Thermo product line for cold chain temperature controlled packaging programs made its debut at PACK EXPO International.
November 8, 2022
Storopack’s Renature Thermo packaging is designed to be a sustainable solution that holds up cold chain standards.
Robotics/Automation
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and Gerresheimer Transform Primary Packaging into Digital Twins
The two companies jointly developed a digital twin solution to further ensure traceability and trust in crucial steps along the pharmaceutical supply chain.
November 4, 2022
The joint PoC of Gerresheimer and Merck comprises physical syringes with a secure unique ID, a smartphone application, and access to the digital platform of Merck in order to unlock the digital twin features. (Image: Gerresheimer)
Regulatory
FDA’s Proposed Change to NDC: Comments Due Nov. 22, 2022
The NDC proposal is intended to minimize the impact of “running out of ten-digit national drug codes (NDCs) by adopting a single, uniform 12-digit format for FDA-assigned NDCs.”
November 1, 2022
Proposed NDC segments and formats. Source: FDA
Packaging/Filling
Healthcare Packaging Community Returns to Chicago
Life sciences manufacturing has been tested the past two-plus years. PACK EXPO International in Chicago (Oct. 23-26) offers opportunities to tackle the next hurdles.
October 19, 2022
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Traceability/Serialization
How Missing Traceability Data Might Affect Pharmacy Patients
If accurate and complete pharma traceability data isn't supplied to pharmacists, they may end up scrambling to serve the patients in front of them. Pharmacy leaders discuss how this may affect relationships with nonconforming trading partners.
October 14, 2022
HDA Traceability Seminar dispenser panel (from left): moderator Ronald Bone, HDA Consultant, Ronald N. Bone Consulting LLC; Ian Cannell, Kaiser Permanente; Lisa Schwartz, National Community Pharmacists Association; and Leon Nevers, H-E-B.
Traceability/Serialization
Experts Still Concerned About Exceptions Under DSCSA
Live from HDA's Traceability Seminar 2022: Data issues may cause double the product holdup when a mismatch of product and data are shipped.
October 13, 2022
From left at the HDA Traceability Seminar: moderator Anita T. Ducca, HDA; Matt Sample, AmerisourceBergen Corporation; Arthi Nagaraj, Sanofi US; Julie Malone, Value Drug Company; and Michael Mazur, Pfizer Inc.
Temp Control/Cold Chain
ISTA: Introduction to BioPharma Cold Chain
International Safe Transit Association (ISTA)
Wednesday, October 19th | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM EST
October 11, 2022
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Traceability/Serialization
DSCSA: Labels Practically as Important as the Medicine Itself
In becoming compliant with interoperable data exchange requirements under DSCSA, don’t overlook the pharmaceutical label itself. Missing case labels or faded inks can pose threats.
October 4, 2022
If wholesalers are unable to read serial numbers or case label information, that product will need to be quarantined, researched, and verified, causing a supply chain disruption.
Materials
Reuse is on the Rise, but ‘Much More Needs to be Done’
A new report from Smithers explores the dynamic reusable and refillable packaging market, detailing four reuse/refill strategies as well as new technology innovations that will help the market grow.
September 30, 2022
Unilever introduced its Dove refill-at-home deodorant package in early 2021.
Regulatory
FDA Perspective: COVID-19 Learnings in Communication, Manufacturing
Dr. Peter Marks: “One thing we definitely learned does not work: you can't keep cold capacity. If you have a facility that's completely cold… then you want to try to bring it up to manufacture vaccines, it just doesn't work well.”
September 12, 2022
Dr. Peter Marks, MD, PhD, director, CBER, FDA.
Traceability/Serialization
Perspective: Making Traceability Accessible
In our July/Aug 2022 issue: One system on the horizon creates a digital fingerprint of an item for authentication with the ubiquitous smartphone. Plus: med device stability testing, UDI implementation, and more.
August 26, 2022
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