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PHARMA SCIENTISTS ARE ACKNOWLEDGING PACKAGING AS THE CORE ENABLER FOR THEIR PRODUCTS TO REACH SAFELYWITH THE DESIRED WORTH FROM THE POINT OF SOURCE TO THE POINT OF USE,TILLTHE TIME IT GETS CONSUMED BYA PATIENT
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ackaging plays the pivotal role in enabling and ensuring not only the quality, safety and efficacy of a pharma product but also that the right and authentic product gets consumed by the patient. It therefore essentially becomes an integral part of a pharma dosage form and opine that it can be uniquely categorised as "non-edible pharma substance". Very few people know that India was the first country in Asia to commence Clinical Trial material (CTM) manufacturing and
Express Pharma
packaging and a non-pharma company Bilcare was assigned this crucial task on the basis of its core strength and expertise in packaging science for pharma products. It is heartening to see packaging taking new dimensions and leaps in the global pharma sector with the pharma scientists acknowledging packaging as the core enabler for their products to reach safely with the desired worth from the point of source to the point of use, till the time it gets consumed by a patient.
"Innovation" is a novel unifying element without competence boundaries which has the power to instigate "Ideas to IP" using a core from one field and transforming into an immensely valuable application in an entirely unrelated sector. Innovations in pharma packaging is the need of the day to propel the mind set shift from "Product Centric to Patient Centric" approach. The Pharma Packaging Conclave is a path-breaking and constructive initiative towards accomplishing this vital objective.
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