CHILD-RESISTANT, SENIOR-FRIENDLY PHARMA PACKAGING
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C HILD-R ESISTANT, SENIOR-FRIENDLY PHARMA PACKAGING ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY USED IN OUR CR / SF PACKAGING LETS SAVE UVES TODAY

DO YOU REALIZE YOUR PRODUCTS CAN HARM CHILDREN? Though we need pharmaceuticals to recover from illnesses, they can cause severe harm to healthy bodies. It is especially tragic when they get into the hands of children. Did you know that • Certain heart and pain medications are so strong that a single pill can kill a child1? • One- to three-year-old boys2 are at the highest risk for poisoning? • Every day in the USA, 165 children under five years3 are taken for emergency treatment due to accessing medicines? • For every 10 cases of child poisoning, approximately 9 happen at home4? • Only 3...

CR tests are carried out by an independent institute in order to define the child resistancy level Constantia Flexibles successfully completed CR / SF legal requirements Children are naturally curious, and we should not block them from exploring the world, we cannot influence the way they see the world, but we can protect them from accidentally harming themselves by packing medicines in packaging with elaborated opening mechanisms such as several step approach or simply strength. Our in-house developed technologies cover a wide range of possibilities, e.g. specific and precise Constantia...

TECHNOLOGY – CR / SF BLISTER LIDDING FOIL In recent years, an increasing number of medicines have been protected with child-resistant (CR) packaging. Notwithstanding this market trend, elderly people also need to be able to open packaging easily (senior-friendly (SF) packaging). They sometimes have other people empty tablets from blister packs into a bowl if they cannot open the packaging themselves – which in turn poses a risk for children who live in the same household. As a result, one of the biggest challenges for medicine packaging is achieving the right balance between child safety...

TECHNOLOGY – CR / SF LAMINATES Most of the laminates currently supplied to the healthcare market are paper based and will never be child resistant. By switching from Paper to PET, customer will no longer manage to open it unless a CR / SF opening device is added. Offering a broad variety of child-resistant packaging solutions, Constantia Flexibles is the market leader with two innovative opening-aid technologies that can also be designed as child-resistant versions: Laser Perforation and Tobepal Opening Feature (TOF) for laminates. Both the Laser Perforation and the TOF technologies are...

CONCLUSION – IDEAL CR / SF PACKAGING FOR PHARMACEUTICALS Delivering healthcare solutions to suit customer preferences and behaviors is no longer just an option. Today’s patients are considerably more savvy. They are more likely to speak up when they feel a product is not living up to its potential and they are looking for alternatives that suit them best. There are strong advantages in utilizing consumer and patient insights for developing products. Results of the study presented in previous sections can serve as a first step in consumer-centered product development. Depending on the...