Pharmaceutical packaging is not all about filling content on a well labeled and designed container. It needs extreme level of safety until the content reaches the customer and started using. So, commercial packaging is very challenging job. The main focus is to protect the medicine from external and harmful environment with several protection levels and make it completely safe for distribution and shipping. Here’s what pharmaceutical packaging companies consider for safety -

Complete Protection
The pharmaceuticals can be in the form of powder, tablets, capsules, liquid or cream. So, the packaging companies should pack them accordingly. The folding cartons have to protect every product from shock, vibration, compression, temperature etc. They use external layer of sheets to protect delicate items, such as bubble sheets, cardboard, and paper strings.

External Protection
Pharmaceutical companies also produce chemicals which also need protection from external elements, such as water vapor, oxygen, dust and more, in order to avoid deformation and chemical reaction of actual composition. With the help of proper sealing technique and correct element, a barrier is created against proposed external factors.

Containment or Agglomeration
It is important to group the medicinal products in one package for safe handling and transportation. Capsules and tablets are mostly packed between plastic and metallic sheets which are sealed and joined together. Most of them are bottled and containment choices usually depend upon the variety of medicine which needs to be packed.

Theft Prevention
Pharmaceutical packaging is also based on reducing the possibility of theft or tempering. This way, the packaging needs to be sealed so that they cannot be closed again. Even if they are opened and re-closed, it shows the sign that can help prevent such cases. Several advanced pharmaceutical packages are designed with anti-theft measures.
Comfort
There are several comfortable features which need to be included for distribution, easy handling, opening, display, re-closing, sale and use/re-use. It ensures safety and efficiency of the packaging.

Transmission of Information
The packaging should also have information related to transportation, uses; dispose/recycling etc. on label in order to ensure safety. The information can be mentioned as note, text, symbol or warning.

Marketing
Along with efficiency and safety, pharmaceutical packages should have ample marketing ability. Packaging is not all about providing protection and safety to the product, but it is also about motivating the potential shoppers to buy the product. The packages are labeled with attractive and fine print for that purpose.

The testing of pharmaceutical packaging can be done to test the leakage, strength and integrity of the seal and several procedures are followed for doing this. They both are complimentary and entirely different processes. Different testing modes are used to analyze the packaging. The testers also conduct the creep-to-failure and creep testing methods to test the seal strengths. With these methods, they test all the non-porous and porous materials. They can easily be applied on packages like pouches, header bags, flexible or rigid blisters, lidded trays and laminated or rolled tubes. To check the strength, any form of packaging can be tested.