Bauer’s pharmaceutical handbook lends ‘Hall of Fame’ packaging perspective

  Professionals and students will benefit from an informative research tool now available for the healthcare packaging community.

Economic adulteration for a new era

 Call me a regulatory geek if you must, but I enjoy mulling the different varieties of adulteration. Today we mull two in particular.

Walmart Rx plan could boost unit-dose packaging

 Walmart and other pharmacies could drive more widespread use of unit-dose packaging in the U.S., says Peter G. Mayberry, executive director of the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (www.unitdose.org).

Time to collaborate

  Discussions of orchestral music and opera often include talk of a leitmotif, a recurring melody or theme driving the piece forward.

Checking in on FDA enforcement stats

  Reading the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s enforcement statistics is like reading tea leaves, with all due respect to tea leaf readers.

Anti-counterfeit strategy needs interdisciplinary approach

  To develop and implement successful anti-counterfeit strategies, you need more than good technology.

NanoGuardian announces John Glover to lead security advisory board

 NanoGuardian, a division of NanoInk that focuses on delivering brand protection solutions to fight illegal diversion and counterfeiting, has announced that John D. Glover, D.P.A., has been appointed to lead its Security Advisory Board.

California delay provides temporary relief

  Uncertainty colored most discussions at a recent healthcare track-and-trace conference. A key question: How will FDA actions differ from California’s e-pedigree program?

DPT, Med-Health Pharma shed light on authentication solution

 A pervasive air of secrecy makes trends in brand protection tough to track. But the following two pharmaceutical-based authentication efforts by DPT Laboratories and Med-Health Pharma shed light on some of the solutions being explored to combat counterfeiters, diverters, and gray marketers who appear to be broadening their horizons. (Alan Green, logistics director for DPT Laboratories, will discuss how the contract developer, manufacturer, and packager is implementing brand-protection strategies at the Brand-Protection Packaging Forum May 5, 2009 in Chicago.)

Risk management

  Business risks related to food packaging are wide-ranging and everywhere: bisphenol-A (BPA), melamine in pet food or milk, food allergen labeling, country of origin labeling—the list seems endless.