What Are the Different Types of Pharmaceutical Packaging?

Pharmaceutical packaging refers to the use of appropriate materials or containers and packaging technology to divide (fill), seal, pack, and label operations of semi-finished products or finished products of pharmaceutical preparations to provide quality assurance, identification trademarks and descriptions The general name of the process. The pharmaceutical packaging itself can be understood from two aspects: from a static perspective, the packaging uses the relevant materials, containers and auxiliary materials to package the pharmaceutical to play its due function; from a dynamic perspective, packaging uses materials The technical methods of containers, containers and auxiliary materials are technology and operation. The role of pharmaceutical packaging in the field of circulation can be divided into two categories: inner packaging and outer packaging. Its function mainly has three aspects, namely protection function, convenient application and product promotion.

Chinese name: Medicine package
Regulations.: Indicate the product name, specifications, and manufacturer of the drug

Classification: Packing tape
Claim: Certain mechanical properties and good safety performance

Requirements for pharmaceutical packaging

China's "Pharmaceutical Administration Law" sets up special chapters on the packaging and repackaging of pharmaceuticals, and makes special provisions on the packaging of pharmaceuticals. These include: the product name, specifications, manufacturer, approval number, product batch number, main ingredients, indications, usage, dosage, contraindications, adverse reactions and precautions must be indicated on the label or instructions of the drug packaging. The Administrative Measures for Packaging Materials and Containers Directly Contacted with Drugs (Decree 13) and the Administrative Regulations on Labels and Instructions for Pharmaceutical Packaging (Decree 24) issued in 2004 also provide detailed regulations for drug packaging.

Pharmaceutical Packaging Pharmaceutical Packaging and Trademarks

A trademark is a visual sign that distinguishes each other's products, and its constituent elements can include text, graphics, numbers, letters, colors, three-dimensional signs and combinations thereof. Trademark registration can enable drugs to obtain legal protection more effectively and enhance their market competitiveness. It can also help consumers identify and purchase drugs, correctly select safe and effective drugs, and support their confidence in drugs and manufacturers. In the trademark registration system, China mainly focuses on voluntary registration, but compulsory registration of pharmaceuticals and tobacco products for human use. Because people use medicines related to people's life health and safety. In other words, drugs with unregistered trademarks entering the market will be regarded as counterfeit or counterfeit drugs. Drug trademarks mainly exist on drug packaging. Drug names, drug generic names, geographical indications, etc. cannot be used as trademarks. For example, Yunnan Baiyao and Liuwei Dihuang Wan are geographical indications or generic names of medicines. In order to achieve the purpose of identifying or promoting drugs, the drug trademark should be prominently displayed on the drug packaging instead of the generic name of the drug. For example, the traditional Chinese medicine industry has the reputation of white medicine in the south and red medicine in the north. Shenyang Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory produces many brands of Shenyang Red Medicines, but the brands 'trademarks are placed in an inconspicuous position in the pharmaceutical packaging, which is difficult to attract consumers' eyes. Therefore, the market is very impressed with Shenyang Red Medicines but it is very strange to the brands. Now they have to face the embarrassing situation where more than 20 manufacturers across the country are counterfeiting and producing Shenyang Red Medicines but are powerless. The Wuji Baifeng Pill is a traditional Chinese medicine ancient recipe, the producers, but Huiren brand Wuji Baifeng Pill later came out on top, that is, the legal concept and marketing concept of the manufacturer are mature, and the trademark of Huiren is highlighted in pharmaceutical packaging and advertising. .

Medicine Packaging Medicine Packaging and Patent

Drug production involves patented technology or technical secrets, but drug packaging mainly involves design protection. China is a member of the Paris Convention, and industrial design protection is the minimum requirement of the Paris Convention. The WTO's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) also provides for the protection of industrial designs in principle. China's domestic law on design protection is mainly reflected in the Patent Law. The conditions for granting the design are mainly manifested in novelty, practicality and beauty.

Pharmaceutical packaging and anti-unfair competition

In pharmaceutical packaging and pharmaceutical advertising, unfair competition should be avoided. China's "Anti-Unfair Competition Law" stipulates that unauthorized use of unique names, packaging and decoration of well-known products, forgery or fraudulent use of certification marks, famous and superior marks, use of false text descriptions, and slander of competitors' goodwill constitute unfair competition. Undertake corresponding legal responsibilities.

Pharmaceutical Packaging Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials

Pharmaceutical packaging materials refer to materials used in manufacturing packaging containers, packaging decoration, packaging printing, packaging and transportation to meet product packaging requirements, including metal, plastic, glass, ceramics, paper, bamboo, wild mushrooms, natural fibers , Chemical fiber, composite materials and other major packaging materials, including paint, adhesives, strapping, decoration, printing materials and other auxiliary materials.

Classification of packaging materials: packing tape, packing tape, plastic packing tape, plastic packing tape, wrapping film, PE wrapping film, PE stretch film, etc.

Requirements for pharmaceutical packaging

1. Certain mechanical properties Packaging materials should be able to effectively protect the product, so it should have certain strength, toughness and elasticity to adapt to pressure and shock. Effects of static and dynamic factors such as vibration.

2. Barrier properties According to different requirements for product packaging, packaging materials should have certain barriers against moisture, water vapor, gas, light, aroma, odor, and heat.

3. Good safety performance The packaging material itself should be less toxic in order to avoid contaminating the product and affecting human health; the packaging material should be non-corrosive and have properties such as insect resistance, moth resistance, rodent resistance, and microorganism suppression to protect product safety.

4. Appropriate processing performance Packaging materials should be suitable for processing, easy to be made into various packaging containers, and mechanization and automation of packaging operations should be easy to adapt to large-scale industrial production. It should be suitable for printing and easy to print packaging signs.

5. Good economic performance Packaging materials should have a wide range of sources, easy access to materials, and low cost. After use, packaging materials and packaging containers should be easy to handle without polluting the environment to avoid causing public hazards.

Classification of pharmaceutical packaging materials

Class I pharmaceutical packaging materials refer to the packaging materials and containers for pharmaceuticals that are in direct contact with the pharmaceuticals and used directly.

Class II pharmaceutical packaging materials refer to the pharmaceutical packaging materials and containers that are in direct contact with the drug, but are easy to clean. In actual use, after cleaning, they are needed and can be sterilized.

Class III drug packaging materials refer to materials and containers other than Class I and II that may directly affect the quality of the drug.

The classification of drug packaging materials shall be formulated and published by the State Drug Administration.

Pharmaceutical Packaging Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials Quality Management

The quality management department of a pharmaceutical packaging material manufacturing enterprise shall be responsible for the quality management and inspection of the entire production process, and shall be directly led by the person in charge of the enterprise. The quality management department shall be equipped with a certain number of quality management and inspection personnel, and shall have places, instruments, and equipment that are compatible with the scale, variety, and inspection requirements of pharmaceutical packaging materials.

Development Prospects of Pharmaceutical Packaging Machinery

Prospects for pharmaceutical packaging

Pharmaceutical packaging machinery is a branch with high technical content and requirements in general packaging machinery. Since pharmaceutical equipment is an important part of GMP hardware, since the introduction of the GMP compulsory certification system in China, pharmaceutical companies in various places have accelerated the pace of technological transformation, and the large-scale update of production equipment has brought a favorable situation to the upstream industry of the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical machinery industry, A large number of production line transformations have brought a huge market for pharmaceutical machinery companies. For example, the ampoule (water needle) series of washing, drying, filling and sealing combined motive groups introduced and developed by Changsha Zhengzhong Medicine Machine Factory has ended the single-machine production history in China for decades. After several improvements, the product has sold more than 600 production lines and exported to Brazil, Russia, Pakistan, Iran and other nearly 20 countries.

Of course, as a whole, at present, most of China's advanced packaging technology research and development of packaging machinery is still in the imitation class, the ability of independent development is still very limited. For this reason, many large foreign companies have introduced their own technologies and components to China and processed them locally, thereby reducing costs and launching fierce competition with local products.

Some data show that as early as 2003, the global pharmaceutical packaging market reached 11.2 billion US dollars, with an average annual growth rate of nearly 5%. In 2006, it was estimated that it had exceeded 13 billion US dollars. The United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy occupy the largest market shares in the world's pharmaceutical packaging industry, while China is the fastest growing country. According to the development speed of China's pharmaceutical industry, the annual gross output value of pharmaceutical packaging materials will quickly exceed 20 billion yuan in the short term.

The annual output value of China's pharmaceutical packaging industry is about 15 billion yuan, with an annual growth rate of more than 10%. However, it can only meet about 80% of the needs of domestic pharmaceutical companies, and the contribution rate of packaging materials to the pharmaceutical industry is also low. In developed countries, packaging accounts for 30% of the value of medicines, but in China, this value is less than 10%.

Development direction of pharmaceutical packaging

If China's packaging machinery meets the rapid development of the pharmaceutical industry and actively participates in international competition, it must break the "small and scattered" industry situation and continue to advance in the "high-precision" direction. The industry believes that in the future, the packaging industry will cooperate with the industrial automation trend and develop in the direction of technological diversification of mechanical functions, standardized and modular structure design, intelligent control, and high-precision structure.

The packaging chain is highly automated. Most of the packaging work of domestic pharmaceutical factories, especially the arrangement and assembly of more complex packaging items, is basically manual. It is difficult to ensure the uniformity and stability of the packaging, which may cause pollution to the packaged products. Even if some pharmaceutical factories use packaging machinery, they are only applied to a certain link in the entire packaging chain. For example, the front-end packaging is mechanical packaging, while the back-end packaging is manual. Therefore, improving the automation level and quality level of the entire packaging chain is a very important part of the implementation of GMP standards by modern pharmaceutical companies. Each robot of a truly modern packaging machine should be controlled by a computer and have high resolution of material and thickness.

Diversified pharmaceutical packaging

The medicinal products with diversified mechanical functions have become more refined and diversified. Single-type and large-volume products are becoming fewer and fewer, while multi-type and small-volume products are becoming mainstream. In the context of the changing environment, packaging machines that are diversified and have multiple switching functions and can adapt to a variety of packaging materials and mold changes can only meet market needs. For example, a blister packaging machine can perform both "aluminum-plastic" and "aluminum-aluminum" packaging, and requires simple switching and fewer molds to be replaced. The time for replacing the mold is generally 1 to 2 hours. Such a long time cannot meet the production requirements of multiple varieties and small batches.

Structural design standard modularity For traditional industrial design, if you want to launch a new model, you need to perform a lot of heavy work, but also rely on new equipment to recover the high design cost, thereby driving up the price of the new model. The future design should adopt a standardized and modular design concept, which can make full use of the modular design of the original model, can be converted into a new model in a short time, and the price of the new model can be controlled in a more reasonable range Inside.

Intelligent drug packaging

Control function The intelligent control system is the brain of the mechanical equipment and the core device for issuing motion instructions. Pharmaceutical packaging machinery manufacturers generally use programmable controllers (PLC controllers), which do not have the powerful functions of an industrial computer (PC). For most traditional mechanical control equipment, PLC is appropriate, because the number of control parameters is limited, and many places still use mechanical control. For example, torque control uses mechanical clutches to protect the motor from overload. However, with the improvement of equipment automation, more and more computer-controlled equipment, the number of various sensing components, detection components, control components, and execution elements applied to the equipment is very large, at this time PLC can not respond to so many The parameters are managed and controlled, and an industrial PC will be the best choice.