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Medical package testers are revealing a lot more about their subjects these days. How? Using high-frequency ultrasound, for one. With it, engineers can locate defects as small as 10 µm in packages. Attendees of HealthPack 2003 heard this news from Jack Richtsmeier, business development manager of Sonoscan Inc. The firm’s technology, Acoustic Micro Imaging (AMI), can locate voids, cracks, delaminations, and disbonds in many types of medical and pharmaceutical packaging. Cardinal Health, for instance, has used it to test foil laminate pouches.
But is such test sensitivity really necessary? This question kept popping up throughout the two-day conference, held in Scottsdale, AZ. The event also featured the second meeting of IoPP’s recently recharged Medical Device Packaging Technical Committee.
Photo credit: Artur – adobe.stock.com It’s probably no surprise that COVID-19 dominated many of our best-read articles related to pharmaceutical and medical packaging in 2020. But sustainability and a rare approval of a new pharmaceutical packaging test method fills out our baker’s dozen.
Hygienic easy-open single-use packaging, a curb-side recyclable pharmaceutical shipper, a report card on senior usefulness (and other failures), and supply chain challenges caught your attention this year.
Based on page views throughout 2020,
Packaging Digest presents its end-of-year list, in reverse order, of 13 top articles about pharmaceutical and medical packaging.