Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News
March 1998 PMP News
Selected Contents
OUR VIEW:
Finding Packaging Personnel
To prepare your company for the challenges of new technologies and globally expanding markets, hire packaging graduates and encourage young people to consider an education in packaging.
OUR VIEW:
Delegation on the Road to China
by JoAnn R. Hines
Women in Packaging invites women packaging executives to meet with Chinese leaders and to tour Chinese companies.
SPOTLIGHT:
Packaging Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices for Clinical Trials
by Daphne Allen
PHARMACEUTICAL:
Paperboard Cartons: More than Just Boxes
by Greg Erickson
The demand for greater shelf presence is spurring the use of cartons, particularly those with eye-catching graphics.
MEDICAL:
Package Testing: Is Standardization on the Horizon?
by Karen G. Beagley
Some groups are working to standardize package testing in the device industry, but will it be enough?
INDUSTRY WATCH:
Do You Have Enough Barrier?
Not all pharmaceutical packages are protecting their contents from moisture and oxygen permeation.
Is yours up to the test?
CASE HISTORY:
System Inspects Blister Packs Reliably and Economically
System offers quality inspection at a fraction of the cost of others.
REGULATORY FOCUS:
FDA Reform Act Has Minimal Effect on Packaging
The act speeds the approval process for changes to drugs, devices, and biologic manufacturing, among other things, but has little to say about labeling or packaging.
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