Pharmaceutical Packaging and Large Cardboard Boxes
While most of the effort and resources are pointed at medicaments and treatment techniques, pharmaceutical packaging is seeing quite some movement and hubbub too.
These range from glow cap pill dispensers to non-traditional child protection on filled prescription orders.
Most popular packaging for medication has been the clear amber individually-labeled bottle and the opaque solid-color non-transparent one.
Both provide sufficient protection from sunlight and environment factors together with uncomfortable push-in screw tops - these are tough enough to prevent breaking and opening by accident.
Difficulty in opening here is on purpose - designed to prevent youngsters from medicating themselves and to eliminate waste of expensive medicaments.
In addition, the pharmaceutical industry has gone further to develop and introduce senior-friendly packages.
These are the latest, with a glow top and change color when it is time to take prescription medication.
Hopefully all customers would be able to keep their sense of color coordination for a long time and avoid skipping medication after retirement.
Safety has also moved forward by manufacturing packaging in hard plastic or fiberglass shells.
These have a dual purpose - the sides of the packaging are squeezed to release a blister containing pre-assigned pills or other dosage by date and following prescription pattern as recommended by a doctor.
It is almost positive now, at the dawn of a medical reform, that pharmaceutical packaging will continue to evolve and follow consumer and environmental trends from other industries as well as legal base amendments.
One can only hope that the latter would be driven by public significance and general common sense as opposed to large corporative interests.
While drastic changes cannot be anticipated, further improvements for the various age and medical chemical compound categories are almost guaranteed.
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