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No nitrosamines: How parenteral packaging is evolving to meet today’s E&L challenges

Pharmaceutical Technology

As the nitrosamine scandal continues, we explore the advancements in parenteral packaging materials that are reducing the risk of this contaminant in modern injectables.

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Why the Next Generation of Drugs Can’t Depend on Legacy Drug Packaging

Pharma Mirror

The glass used to package, store, and deliver drugs today was created in 1881 — just 16 years after the Civil War ended — and has changed very little since then, and it’s these vials that drug companies, who are creating ever-evolving, more complex drugs, are beholden to use.

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MIT Scientists Develop Food Sensor That Can Detect Spoiled or Contaminated Food

XTalks

MIT engineers have designed a food sensor , made from an array of silk microneedles, that can pierce through the plastic packaging of foods to sample for bacterial contamination and spoilage. The Velco-like device pierces the packaging and the food via silk microneedles that suck in material through capillary action.

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Prefilled syringes and vaccines: Optimising parenteral packaging for the next pandemic

Pharmaceutical Technology

Manufacturers are actively looking at ways they can improve drug delivery through well-designed parenteral packaging systems, and the choice to deploy prefilled syringes for more and more injectable drug products is a key part of this push. Prefilled syringes offer a number of advantages over the more traditional glass vial.

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Mitigating the risks of cross-contamination during Oral Solid Dose (OSD) manufacturing

Pharmaceutical Technology

Compared to other dosage forms, tablets are simpler to manufacture, package, and transport. This heightens the risk of cross contamination, requiring effective containment solutions, especially when handling highly potent powders. As with any pharmaceutical manufacturing, challenges can be many, and processes are highly regulated.

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Advancing parenteral packaging production for the future of pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical Technology

Datwyler is a leading provider of parenteral packaging components and is helping the industry put quality first through the invention of the FirstLine® manufacturing standard. This whitepaper discusses the issue of nitrosamine contamination since 2018 and the response from regulators and industry.

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FDA Announces Slow Phase-Out of Certain PFAS Chemicals Used in Food Packaging

XTalks

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a voluntary phase-out of certain types of grease-proofing agents on paper and paperboard food packaging. These chemicals help prevent grease and oil from seeping through the packaging. Why PFAS in Food Packaging Is a Problem. Yet PFAS are finding their way into our bodies.