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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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Uncovering packaging impurities with rAAV genome sequencing

Drug Discovery World

Join DDW for this exclusive free event, ‘ rAAV genome sequencing with Oxford Nanopore uncovers transgene integrity and packaging impurities ’. The post Uncovering packaging impurities with rAAV genome sequencing appeared first on Drug Discovery World (DDW). The event will be supported by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.

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rAAV Genome sequencing uncovers transgene integrity and packaging impurities

Drug Discovery World

Attendees will hear how library preparation, assessed data quality, and generated important rAAV metrics such as integrity of DNA cargo, truncation events, chimeric transgenes, and levels of co-packaged impurities were performed. A live Q&A session follows the webinar presentation.

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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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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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What to Look for in Medical Device Packaging

Pharma Packaging Solutions

Medical device packaging plays a vital role in the public health sector, ensuring that medical devices make it to consumers without being damaged or compromised. With such an important job to do, medical device packaging must meet several strict requirements. We look forward to assisting with all of your packaging needs.