Drug Packaging

Term Paper # 103811

Medical and Health > Drugs
Medical and Health > Pharmacy

Drug Packaging

This paper explores the packaging regulations for pharmaceutical products.

1,142 words () | 5 sources | MLA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how the package manufacturing and filling criteria for drugs are quite rigorous. The paper looks at how package manufacturing and filling in cases involving pharmaceutical drugs differ from conventional food and shows how, although similar, relatively less attention is paid to food packaging than is paid to drug packaging.

From the Paper:

"The packaging of pharmaceutical products appears to be, on balance, more rigorously controlled than for most other products - though whether or not it is more rigorously controlled than the packaging of foodstuffs is open to question. In any case, pharmaceutical products are closely watched for the very simple reason that pharmaceutical products are meant to be ingested by people; this, obviously, cannot be said for most of the items that are on the market. Beyond that, the people who utilize pharmaceutical products are people who, for the most part, are in ill health; suffice it to say, if they take into their system an adulterated product, the possibility (generally speaking) that they will suffer great harm is much higher."

Sample of Sources Used:

Heckman, Jerome. "Food Packaging Regulation in the United States and the European Union." PACKAGINGLAW.COM. JUN. 2005. KELLER & HECKMAN, LLP. 30 APR. 2007 <HTTP://WWW.PACKAGINGLAW.COM/INDEX_FCN_2004_SPECIAL_ARTICLE.CFM>
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration. "Container Closure Systems for Packaging Human Drugs and Biologics." U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. 5 Jun. 2005. Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. 29 Apr. 2007 <http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/1714fnl.htm#QUALIFICATION%20AND%20QUALITY%20CONTROL%20OF%20PACKAGING%20COMPONENTS>
U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Director, Office of Generic Drugs. "Guidance on the Packaging of Test Batches." Manual of Policies and Procedures. 11 Nov. 1995. Food and Drug Administration. 30 Apr. 2007 <http://www.fda.gov/cder/mapp/5225-1.pdf>
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