INTEGRATED PHARMA PACKAGING SOLUTIONS FOR TABLETS FROM NICHROME
The pharma industry is constantly evolving and advancing. We see new formulations for better efficacy, alternative user-friendly forms in response to patient needs - complemented by advances in packaging design, materials and technologies. Product protection is obviously the most important function of packaging. Pharmaceutical products have to be shielded from the damaging effects of the environment. Many formulations become unstable when exposed to air, moisture, or light, and therefore protection from these factors is necessary to ensure medicines remain effective and safe. What is more, distribution of pharmaceutical products is now more global than ever before, and pharma packaging must therefore fulfil some universally accepted functions. Functions of Pharma Packaging 1. Containment: The design of high-quality pharma packaging must take into account both the needs of the product and of the manufacturing and distribution system. This requires the pharma packaging: not to leak, nor allow diffusion and permeation of the product, to be strong enough to hold the contents when subjected to normal handling and not to be altered by the ingredients of the formulation in its final dosage form. 2. Protection: Pharma packaging must protect the product against all adverse external influences that may affect its quality, efficacy or potency, such as light, moisture, oxygen, biological contamination, mechanical damage and counterfeiting/adulteration. 3. Information: Pharma packaging is also an essential source of information on medicinal products which is provided by labels and package inserts for patients.