Improved blister packaging benefits consumers, caregivers, and drug makers From: Pharmaceutical Technology | Date: September 1, 2003| Author: Forcinio, Hallie | Copyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. Sep 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

New blister packaging offers patient compliance aids, child-resistant mechanism, and space to include brand information.

Enhanced blister packaging that adds a paperboard or plastic component to standard formed film-lidstock blisters is familiar in hospital settings and clinical trials. Such structures, which can provide a unit dose, help ensure patient compliance, or make a package more childresistant (CR), are used for a growing number of physician samples and animal healthcare produ...

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