Product tampering, package design

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What was once a terrorist-style, random crime led to innovative and effective product protection. Not only is safety of a product important when reducing products liability, so is the design of packaging. Designers must consider ways in which someone can access edible or other kinds of products and prevent tampering before the products reach consumers. 

Protection of the public from product tampering is of major concern when considering a package design. 

Paper, paperboard, and cardboard containers are used ubiquitously in pharmaceutical manufacturing. Because these types of containers are rarely designed to interact with the drug product itself, they are not as comprehensively validated in most compendial evaluations. Paper, paperboard, and cardboard are very inexpensive easy to print identification, instructions, or advertising materials and easily adhered to other packaging components. Furthermore, paper is a key component in several designs implemented to comply with tamper-resistant packaging mandates. ... 

Will it be necessary to design packs where the information will dominate the design parameters This is already a reality in some limited areas of packaging, e.g. leaflets on small parenteral antibiotic packs More importance is now placed on eye appeal with the creation of consumer preference for the product, particularly in the case of OTC medicines. However, less ornate and more functional forms of labelling must not be ignored, i.e. identifying features for parcels, cases, crates, etc. and as seals to show when a product has been tampered with. 

The use of plastics in modern pharmaceutical packaging products is described. Aspects covered include the continual quest for an ideal material and process, properties, machinery and selection criteria (FDA approval, tamper-evident packaging, product-package compatibility, sterilisation, polymer additives, smart design and environmentally-friendly packaging). 

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