Course overview
Gain crucial insights into the unique issues and challenges of pharmaceutical packaging to ensure product safety, compliance, and market success in this interactive course.
Effective packaging of pharmaceutical and healthcare products is critical not only for maintaining product integrity and safety but also for regulatory compliance and market acceptance.
Packaging serves multiple functions beyond containment, including protection from environmental factors, ensuring product stability, and providing essential information to healthcare providers and patients. Understanding the intricacies of pharmaceutical packaging is vital for professionals involves in drug development, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, quality control, and logistics.
This introductory course is designed to equip delegates with a foundational understanding and/or refresher of pharmaceutical product packaging. It begins with a comprehensive regulatory overview, ensuring participants grasp the essential requirements and compliance standards governing pharmaceutical packaging. The programme also delves into crucial topics such as the selection of packaging materials, considerations for compatibility and stability (including ICH testing and extractables/leachables studies), and the role of packaging in new product development.
Additional topics include:
- Pharmaceutical packaging formats and materials available - advantages and applications
- Trade and transit requirements
- Environmental considerations
- Artwork design essentials
- Specialised areas - child-resistant closures and tamper-evident packaging
CPD Hours: 18
Course Content
- Day 1
- NPD process
- The role of pharmaceutical packaging
- Regulatory and GMP Requirements
- Product security and emerging pharma legislation
- Choice of pharmaceutical packaging
- Pack testing and evaluation - ICH
- ICH testing
- Special climatic conditions
- Secondary and tertiary packaging materials Part 1
- Special aspects of pharmaceutical packaging
- Day 2
- ICH testing continued.
- Key properties of various primary packaging materials Part 1
- Primary packaging materials Part 2
- Primary packaging materials Part 3
- Day 3
- Primary packaging materials Part 4
- Secondary and tertiary packaging materials Part 2
- Trade/transit requirements
- Interactive session (Case study: group exercise & feedback)
- Takeaway and key messages
Speakers
Chris Penfold
Chris Penfold is an experienced Freelance Packaging Development Specialist and Consultant; a self-motivated, achievement oriented, confident and creative leader with a proven track record in general and technical management. He is a packaging professional with over 25 years packaging development and NPD experience working on £million-brands in the OTC, healthcare and Rx pharma arenas for ‘blue-chip’ multinational companies such as Glaxo (GSK), CIBA (Novartis), Boots Healthcare and Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare.
He is an MBA graduate and Chartered Marketer with extensive cross-functional experience in a broad spectrum of related disciplines, including marketing, supply chain, QC and production. An ‘International Player’ with experience working in various European countries, Middle East, North America and extended business trips to the Far East. Underpinned by proven interpersonal skills, the ability to make things happen and experience gained from independent international consultancy projects and running his own business, Design Cognition Ltd.
