Different levels and types of Pharmaceutical packaging means a lot to medical and pharmaceutical industries, protecting medications from being damaged by environmental factors such as light, heat, humidity and other forms of contamination. It can also prevent medications from being tampered.
The packaging plays a vital role in ensuring the safety, effectiveness and quality stability of medicines and drugs. This article will show different levels and types of pharmaceutical packaging, by their benefits, describing how the medicine packaging is achieved.
Three levels exist when it comes to medicine package. They are primary, secondary and tertiary pharmaceutical packaging.
Produced to protect medicines’ quality and chemical composition, primary packaging refers to the material that makes direct contact with pharmaceuticals. There are some kinds of this material, such as a container of pills.
Tablets and capsules are mostly stored in blister packs and bottles, while liquid drugs are often packaged in ampoules and vials.
· Blister packs: are typically seen in forms of aluminum-PVC and aluminum-aluminum blister packs. They provide individual compartments for each capsule, tablet or pill, protect pharmaceutical products by providing a shelter against humidity, dust and other kinds of contaminant, for medications need a stable condition to keep their efficacy. In terms of product integrity, the design of blister packs is to be tamper-evident. If a blister is used or opened, it’s difficult to restore it, ensuring the product integrity and strengthening consumers’ confidence that their pills have not ever been tampered.
( Blister packs )
· Pill bottles: contain solid medicines like capsules and tablets, and sometimes contain liquid drugs. These bottles are commonly made of plastic or glass, and glass bottles are mostly in brown or orange for protecting content from ultraviolet light.
( Pill bottles )
· Sachets: are small, sealed pouches or packets used to package powdered or granular medications and health supplements. They are lightweight and easy to take along with, offering portability and convenience of use.
( Sachets )
· Soft tubes: contain liquid drugs like eyedrops and unguent.
· Vials: are small glass containers for medicine, usually containing medicines in the form of liquid or powder.
( Vials )
· Ampoules: are smaller glass containers, produced to contain a very small number of liquid drugs used for an injection.
( Ampoule )
Secondary packaging refers to containers that protect the primary packaging material, and provide information of pharma’s branding and medicine use directions on the surface of packaging material. There are two main purposes of this medicine packaging: supporting pharmaceutical brand building; adding additional protection to medications at stages of shipping, transport, etc., especially in the case that the primary packaging material is glass or soft plastic.
This level of pharmaceutical packaging commonly comes with forms below.
· Cartons: offer additional protection to pharmaceutical content and carry information of pharma brands. In another aspect, cartons are designed to enhance portability and convenience to use when consumers purchase packs of blister sheets or bottles of tablets.
( Cartons )
· Paperboard boxes: provide content with better protection in the aspect of material firmness and sturdy packaging, serving similar purposes as cartons.
( Paperboard box )
Tertiary packaging exists as the outmost protective material for medicines or drugs, produced for smooth shipping and secure storage of pharmaceuticals. This packaging of drugs chiefly serves the purpose of absorbing physical impacts in logistics, maintaining product cleanness, and guaranteeing the safe distribution of medications from manufacturers to hospitals and pharmacies.
Besides protecting pharmaceutical products in huge numbers, high-quality tertiary pharmaceutical packaging facilitates logistics, keeping away worries on issues of product damage and waste, and improving the supply chain efficiency.
Commonly seen forms of this level of medicine package are shown below.
· Shipping boxes
· Pallets
· Stretch wrap
Types of packaging for pharmaceutical have been progressing, reflecting international concerns about product quality and sustainability, supply chain security, and health safety. To better understand the safety maintenance of pharmaceutical products, paragraphs below describe four types of packaging.
Intelligent packaging is a modern method which integrates innovative technologies, such as real-time data monitoring devices, QR codes and infrared sensors, into frequent medicine packaging operations, detecting abnormal factors of external environment and equipment running, and enhancing medicine safety and efficacy.
This type of pharma packaging is designed to offer unmistakable evidence of unauthorized access to products, significant for pharmaceutical industry where medicine safety and effectiveness are the concern of priority. With the help of tamper-evident packaging, if any tampering or unauthorized access has occurred, evidently visible signs such as damaged secondary packaging materials and broken seals will take place and indicate that products may not be in a safe status.
Apparently, this packaging type helps ensure the safety of consumers, pharma brands and global pharmaceutical supply chains.
This type of packaging serves the purpose of maintaining the quality of medications susceptive to temperature. Some medications are sensitive to heat, thus requiring strict temperature control in the process of storage and transport. The packaging type incorporates cold-chain logistics, insulated containers and other forms of temperature-adjusted packaging, all designed to safeguard the efficacy of temperature-sensitive medications.
This pharmaceutical packaging type is important for patients to increase their medication adherence, and helps patients more easily understand and follow prescribed dosages and varieties of medicine, thereby approaching the goal of treatment.
Having a comprehensive understanding of pharmaceutical packaging levels, types and materials lets us be more familiar with the industry. An intelligent and fully automatic packaging line will ensure the quality of primary and secondary pharma packaging at the same time, and contribute to the success of integrated pharmaceutical packaging solutions.
Rich Packing provides diverse types of blister packing machines, pill counting and bottling machines, flow wrappers and carton packaging machines. For instance, the maximum output of a cartoning machine reaches 27,000 cartons/h.
Various machines of Rich Packing can be integrated into automated production lines, performing primary and secondary pharmaceutical packaging with just a few touches on a digital screen, and these production lines carry out intelligent packaging such as real-time data monitoring, punch pressure detection, precise pill counting and auto waste rejection, offering integrated pharma packaging solutions. If you need a supplier in this field, welcome to contact us.
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