Failure to sufficiently protect your pharmaceuticals and overcome these hurdles can render your products unusable. So, a strong pharmaceutical packaging solution must be in place to protect and maintain the quality of your products.
In this article, we highlight the 4 most common challenges pharmaceutical companies face with packaging, and how your business can overcome them.
1. Preventing counterfeit products
The presence of counterfeit pharmaceuticals has become a global dilemma which poses a threat to an effective health care system. Fortunately, there are steps your business can take to minimise the possibility of these incidents occurring.
A successful tamper-evident taping solution is a cost-effective and reliable way to deter any criminal activity during the transportation of your product. But what tamper-evident solutions are used for pharmaceuticals?
Favourable within the pharmaceutical industry, Reinforced Self Adhesive Paper Machine tape offers a clean and eco-friendly way to prevent counterfeit products. Unlike Gummed Paper Tape, this solution doesn’t rely on water to activate the adhesive – perfect for sterile environments.
Another packaging solution effectively used across the pharmaceutical industry is bespoke cartons. With this use of simple but clever design, bespoke cartons can be folded into tamper evident boxes to provide another level of security for your product. Take the packaging below for example, the bespoke design creates no way of accessing the product without damaging the box. An easy way to prove your product is genuine.
