Tamper Evident Pharmaceutical Packaging-Needs and Advances
Автор:Manoj Kumbhar and Meera Singh Год: 2013 Издание:LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 60 ISBN: 9783659244827 Drugs need more care in their packaging than do most other products. Now a day’s other than protection, presentation, identification, information and convenience; packaging must be tamper evident, equally for primary and secondary packages. Tamper evident packaging having an indicator or barrier to entry which, if breached or missing, can reasonably be expected to provide visual or audible evidence to consumer that tampering has occurred. After the Tylenol tragedy more emphasis has been given on control of tampering with different acts and regulation for the packaging. Different technological approaches are discussed in this work used to make product tamper evident. Also the smart packaging technology introduced with color changing polymer, gas sensing dyes, bar coding discussed in the book.With covert and overt technology, tamper evident packaging provides secure against counterfeiting attempts. But to reduce risk of tampering the importance of consumer education and GMP is also...
