Secondary packaging is where most of a medicine’s regulatory identity lives. The tablet is made once, in one strength, to one specification. The carton around it carries the market-specific name, the local language leaflet, the Braille, the barcode and the serial number that lets a supply chain prove the pack is genuine. Secondary packaging pharmaceuticals … Continued

The split between primary and secondary packaging pharma teams work with is not a filing convention. It decides which regulations bite, which materials need qualifying against the product, which areas need environmental control, and which parts of the process can be reworked if something goes wrong. The definition itself is short. Primary packaging touches the … Continued

A sachet looks like the simplest pack in pharmaceuticals: a rectangle of laminate with a powder inside. In practice, pharmaceutical sachet filling asks more questions of a formulation than most other primary formats, because the pack is formed, dosed and sealed in one continuous operation with no chance to inspect inside afterwards. Get the laminate, … Continued

Search for a pharma bottle manufacturer and the results give you two entirely different kinds of supplier on the same page. One moulds empty containers from resin or glass and sells them by the pallet. The other holds a Manufacturer’s / Importer’s Authorisation and puts your product into those containers under GMP. Buyers brief the … Continued

Most packaging tenders are decided on a price per thousand and a lead time. Both are the wrong place to start. The cost of a poor partner rarely shows up in the unit rate. It shows up as a batch held for weeks because the Qualified Person was unavailable, or a market you cannot supply … Continued

Ask three people which rules govern pharmaceutical packaging in the UK and you will often get three answers, all partly right. The law sits in one place, the licensing regime in another, and the market access conditions have moved twice since 2020. Most of the expensive mistakes come from working to the wrong map rather … Continued

If you are sourcing packing for a solid oral dose product for the first time, blister packing is probably the format you have been quoted for, and probably the one you have been given the least explanation about. Quotations arrive full of terms like forming film, lidding foil, pocket pitch and index length, with an … Continued

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