The breadth of specialized pharmaceutical packaging services offered by contract packagers, from early-stage drug form and medical packaging design to managing a product through its life cycle, has expanded year over year. Contract commercial pharmaceutical packaging service providers offer a range of innovative packaging solutions including, but not limited to:
1. Coding and serialization: During serialization, each saleable unit of a prescription drug product, at the primary custom pharmaceutical packaging level, is assigned a unique serial number or code linked to information about the product's origin, batch number, and expiration date. Tracking counterfeit products, providing regulatory compliance, branding & consumer protection, and tracing capability throughout the pharmaceutical supply chain is enabled via serialization drive contract packaging services.
2. Aggregation: Secondary packaged assemblies undergo pharmaceutical aggregation-serialization. While serialization in itself adds a unique identifier to each product at an individual level, an aggregation solution adds codes to the outside of secondary medical packaging all the way up to cases and pallets. Serialization is compulsory, but aggregation is being increasingly implemented on a voluntary basis as it makes the distribution chain as well as stock level management more efficient.
3. Labelling: Within a complex regulatory landscape, sophisticated label solutions can play an important role in supporting product and patient safety. Initially, the label serves to mark the pharmaceutical packaging clearly and reliably by providing information on the product, its administration, and batch number. However, dosage forms and drug delivery methods can vary widely, so the label design has to be optimally tailored to meet the specific requirements of the medication.
4. Quality control: Medical packaging companies often offer cutting-edge technologies to ensure that the customers exact custom pharmaceutical packaging needs are met. The specification and requirement of quality testing depends on the type of pharmaceutical materials used. Containers are tested by many methods, adhering to specifications outlined by regulatory agencies including the USFDA, GMP, WHO, etc.
Temperature controlled pharmaceutical packaging services, blow fill seal (BFS) customized packaging services, secondary pharmaceutical contract packaging services, plasma impulse chemical vapor deposition (PICVD) coating technology, and cold chain capabilities are a few more contract commercial pharmaceutical packaging services that serve as solutions in the contract packaging services industry.