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SECURITY PACKAGING SUPPLEMENT

• Bar coding labeling and lot numbers.
• Bar coding was for customer ease of identification.
• Bar coding sterile prefilled 5-L bags; challenges were readability and standardization.
• Date code and serial number tracking through manufacturing.
• Getting a bar code on a unit-dose suppository to read accurately.
• Have purchased equipment for bar coding and printing.
• Instituted blister packing and went from carton insertion fold to hot-melt glue-sealed containers. Need stretchable triple-laminate foils but have not found good suppliers.
• None—all security is handled in the form of reconciliation and shippers security practices.
• Our security is limited to the master shipping carton used for transit.
• Printing with taggants.
• Right now we only seal our closure to bottles. The outside carton is not sealed.
• Strict inventory control.
• Tagging cartons for the Department of Defense with RFID tags.
• Tamper-evident caps.
• We are just starting down the road where security information will become important.

Source: Verbatim responses to PMP News’s 2007 Security Packaging Survey.