Webinar: Packaging for Medical and Healthcare Products and Devices
14 September 2011
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Achieving fit-for-purpose, compliant packaging: why laboratory-based transit / package testing is an essential tool
For the medical device and pharmaceutical sector, demonstrating that a packaged product is 'fit for purpose of supply' (or packaging validation and qualification) is a vital element in adopting a diligent approach to new product and pack development. It's also a mandatory / regulatory requirement for FDA / MHRA / EMEA approval and compliance with ISO 11607.
You need to ensure that your products are packed in such a way that their characteristics and performance during intended use will not be adversely affected during transport and storage.
If you are responsible for or involved in this, then you may be asking - what is packaging validation, how does this lead to approval and how can laboratory based testing assist with this?
Webinar speakers James Raw and Justin Scott will help you understand the validation process and how you can harness lab-based testing to qualify your packaging.
Smithers Pira Chief Consultant James Raw explains: "Laboratory based testing offers controlled, repeatable and rapid evaluation of the performance of packaged goods with respect to the physical and thermal hazards of distribution. This can include vibration representing road, rail and air transport, horizontal or vertical impacts, compression plus recreation of thermal and climatic events."
Both speakers have extensive experience' of packaging testing and evaluation, with a broad knowledge of packaging materials and processes, logistics and the supply chain.
Originally held on 14 September 2011, the webinar reviewed:
- The approval drivers behind the use of laboratory based distribution testing
- What is required before testing can be undertaken (protocol development)
- How package testing is used as part of the approval process
- The common test standards and types of products tested
- Hazards of transit and how those hazards are reproduced in a test environment
Listen now if you are involved in:
The pharmaceutical and medical device industries with responsibility for packaging/distribution validation and qualification:
- Packaging design and development
- Product and device development
- Logistics of finished goods
- Quality assurance
- Shipment validation and qualification.