Secondary packaging for the parmaceutical sector

As for food production, even for pharmaceuticals, it is necessary to carefully follow the Good Manufacturing Standards, consisting of a set of rules that describe the methods, equipment, and management of production steps to ensure the appropriate quality standards.
Still, the features of the secondary packaging for the pharmaceutical sector remain the safety and functionality factors. In addition to protecting, the packaging must prevent tampering or misuse. The market sees cardboard boxes as secondary packaging still prevailing.

Traceability and anti-counterfeiting

The interest in the packaging phase of a medicine has increased not only because of its role in communication and promotion of the product itself. In view of the regulatory changes following the advent of the parallel market as well as of the new directive identifying online pharmacies and counterfeit infringement rules, packaging plays a central role in controlling the distribution channel and falsifications.

A. De Robertis, in line with Legislative Decree 17/2014, with which Italy has transposed Directive 2011/62 EC, has invested in modern technologies for the implementation of basic regulatory and safety requirements in the pharmaceutical sector, such as braille character, traceability and anti-counterfeiting prints, realizing in harmony with good process planning, specific projects with the use of innovative applications and technologies, such as tags, rfid, nfc, reactive paints, etc.