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Contract Packaging
What’s a regulatory crime?
Violations of the FDA’s requirements can put you in jail for a misdemeanor even if you didn’t intend to commit them.
September 21, 2015
Operational Excellence
Regulations, ‘silos’ slow pharmaceutical serialization progress
In this opinion piece, Healthcare Packaging Publisher Jim Chrzan suggests focusing on change management, looking outside pharma, and questions the promise of global harmonization.
September 18, 2015
Contract Packaging
Building in cost savings on the packaging end
How to make forecast vs reality work in pharmaceutical contract packaging.
August 27, 2015
Home
HM-251—It’s not just for crude oil anymore
Just a few months after HM-251 was published, there are already multiple appeals and at least two lawsuits.
August 26, 2015
Home
Animal product regulation is a complex creature
When it comes to keeping track of regulatory requirements, sometimes it seems like it’s raining cats and dogs. And cows and chickens.
August 25, 2015
Workforce
Align expectations for project success
According to Joe Zembas, Director of Engineering & Technical Services for The J.M. Smucker Company, the success or failure of any new packaging operation project hinges on how clearly expectations are defined upfront by all stakeholders.
August 25, 2015
Workforce
Design thinking in packaging education
Scientists and designers use different approaches to problem solving.
August 25, 2015
Material handling
Three primary cold chain packaging pain points and priorities
Along with preventing temperature excursions, three priority issues are regulatory compliance, reducing costs, and emerging markets.
August 25, 2015
Operational Excellence
Brands at thumbnail size
I enjoy spending time in a supermarket. The attraction is less for the physical act of grocery shopping and more for the investigative experience.
August 5, 2015
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Trim the fat, cut the GRAS?
Use it or lose it, goes the old saying. But what happens if you do use it? Why, it makes you want to use it again, of course.
August 5, 2015
Prepared Foods
Howdy, Helga, and welcome to Texas
At last April’s Anuga FoodTec in Cologne, a number of partnerships and alliances were talked about at various exhibitor booths.
August 5, 2015
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Steady gains in sustainability are sometimes overlooked
Even when sustainability isn’t a package’s main reason for being, sometimes that package turns out to be ‘green’ after all.
August 5, 2015
Workforce
Insights on Teva’s acquisition of Allergan Generics
As acquisitions of specialty and generic pharmaceutical companies continue to escalate, Frost & Sullivan analysts weigh in on Teva’s purchase of Allergan Generics.
August 4, 2015
Contract Packaging
Industry Inflection Point, Part 1: The infancy of contract partnerships
I’m often asked, “What’s going on in the contract manufacturing and packaging industry today?”
July 29, 2015
Contract packaging
The dangers of inattention
Outsourcing production to external supply chain partners is a relatively young practice. Partners both sides of service contracts must PAY ATTENTION or face potentially grave risks.
July 29, 2015
Cartons and boxes
Gabletop carton reaches its centennial
A retrospective and a look ahead on a venerable package, as imagined from the source.
July 13, 2015
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Packaging—the path to consumer delight
As a packaging professional, you likely have learned technical data about various materials and how each performs to protect what it holds.
June 30, 2015
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Pot marketers eating up opportunities, shaping regulation
The swift emergence of legal marijuana, for medical or merely recreational use, continues to be a story of fascinating challenges.
June 30, 2015
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