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Labeling/Printing
Lab Automates Serialization Efforts
A serialization system helps a laboratory meet DSCSA requirements in a small footprint, handling cartons or flat blanks.
April 26, 2017
Pineberry's CartonTrac helps a laboratory meet DSCSA requirements in a small footprint, handling cartons or flat blanks.
Materials
Recipharm Delivers First Serialized Batch to Saudi Arabia
The €300,000 project, which is in addition to a wider €40 million investment into new serialization technology and processes to comply with the European Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD), enables Recipharm to supply serialized products to Saudi Arabia.
April 24, 2017
Shown here is a Recipharm carton as it's labeled.
Medical Device/Packaging
Taking Wound Care Cues from Spiders
Is point-of-use nanofiber production the future of wound care? Harvard researchers inch closer to a system that could one day produce sterile bandages in the field.
April 21, 2017
A schematic of the pull spinning apparatus with a side view illustration of a fiber being pulled from the polymer reservoir. The pull spinning system consists of a rotating bristle that dips and pulls a polymer jet in a spiral trajectory (Leila Deravi/Harvard University)
Pharmaceuticals
Temperature Issues that Affect Clinical Trials Packaging
From new therapies to direct-to-patient provisions, clinical trials processes have evolved. How are temperature controls keeping up?
April 19, 2017
Temperature-controlled packaging is focusing more on security around seals and tamper-evident closures, along with greater use of GPS tracking and geofencing to address DSCSA concerns for drugs in transit.
Packaging/Filling
Process Strategies for Serialization Success
From mobile serialization cells to customized equipment, serialization systems may be unique to each application, but there are common approaches to solving them. An expert discusses success stories, and what factors should influence your strategy.
April 17, 2017
Process Strategy #3 involves moving serialization equipment between lines, which may fit a company’s needs for flexibility.
Pharmaceuticals
AK Execution Drugs May’ve Been Acquired Illegally
A judge may block Arkansas’ seven upcoming executions due to suppliers claiming the drugs aren’t intended for lethal injection.
April 17, 2017
Arkansas Execution Protestors / Photo: Kelly P. Kissel/AP
Materials
Strengthening the Supply Chain
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. This is becoming clear to the pharmaceutical industry as it struggles to comply with FDA regulations that will require the electronic exchange of serialization data.
April 13, 2017
When emergencies erupt, Direct Relief provides medical supplies that victims need to survive.
Nutraceuticals/Dietary
Uruguay Pharmacies to Sell OTC Marijuana
In the final stage of Uruguay’s normalization of marijuana, pharmacies will begin selling cannabis in July.
April 13, 2017
A protester against the marijuana registry. / Image: Getty Images
Materials
Serialization Will Impact All Drug Manufacturing
PMMI study reports on serialization implementation hurdles and compliance deadlines.
April 12, 2017
Shown here are serialization compliance deadlines. Source: “2016 PMMI Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices: Trends and Opportunities in Packaging Operations.”
Pharmaceuticals
Pharma Industry Survey Ranks Top Clinical Trial Logistics Providers
UPS and Marken recognized by respondents in new Nice Insight survey for operational excellence in temperature data collection and management services.
April 12, 2017
Shown here is a Marken depot. Marken and UPS were recognized as top clinical trials providers in a recent Nice Insight survey.
Cannabis
Cannabis News: CannMed Conference, Machinery and More
News around the growing industry from mouth swabs for impaired driver testing to oil-filling machines.
April 6, 2017
Former NFL players lead panel discussion on medical cannabis use in professional sports.
Supply Chain
DHL Supply Chain to Use Collaborative Robots
The contract logistics company will pilot test LocusBots for order fulfillment within the life sciences sector at a Tennessee facility.
April 5, 2017
The contract logistics company will pilot test LocusBots for order fulfillment within the life sciences sector at a Tennessee facility.
Supply Chain
7 Logistics Questions to Answer When Updating Your Practices
Some seemingly costly cold chain updates can save millions in products losses, transportation costs and more. On the heels of award-winning and sustainable improvements, Cardinal Health and Sonoco ThermoSafe discuss the opportunities and concepts to consider.
March 31, 2017
Cardinal Health's new bulk shippers had averaged 200 uses each (137,320 shipments) with only 261 units receiving minor damage (damage rate of 0.0019%). Source: Cardinal Health
Materials
Afton Scientific Uses Customized Serialization for Vial Cartons
Cartons and cases of aseptically filled glass vials are serialized and aggregated in advance of DSCSA deadlines.
March 28, 2017
Afton Scientific’s Kari Moore (left) and Ashley Umberger stand beside the packaging line where the serialization equipment is seen on the conveyor, with the aggregation equipment on the tabletop.
Traceability/Serialization
Serialization Standards for the Plant
OPEN-SCS is solving how to seamlessly exchange serialization data between packaging lines by leveraging existing plant floor standards. The group promises that their work will result in an open global specification accessible to large and small manufacturers.
March 21, 2017
Marcel de Grutter, Executive Director of OPEN-SCS.
Pharmaceuticals
Challenges and Benefits of Using ISTA’s Standard 20 for the Development of ISC’s
Standard 2D Revision 2.0 uses a QbD approach to develop insulated shipping containers (ISCs) to meet regulatory expectations.
March 21, 2017
ISTA: Best practices chart.
Materials
Laser Coding Helps to Deter Counterfeit Meds
Within the pharmaceutical industry, the quality of labeling and coding is paramount to ensure that the end user has access to clear, concise information and to help manufacturers be compliant with national and international labeling legislation.
March 17, 2017
Laser Coding Helps to Deter Counterfeit Meds
Materials
Pharma-Logistics Initiative to Address Supply Chain Issues
Speaking at the 15th IQPC Cold Chain GDP & Temperature Management Logistics Summit in Toronto, TEAM-UP Founder Alan Kennedy stressed the need for the pharma sector to embrace some of the supply chain concepts from other industries.
March 16, 2017
Alan Kennedy of TEAM-UP speaks at IQPC Cold Chain Canada on March 2, 2017.
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