Preventing tampering of pharmaceutical packaging has been a high-profile issue ever since the infamous Tylonol case way back in 1982.
Label converters have been refining closure seals ever since, and pharmaceutical labeling specialist Schreiner MediPharm has recently launched a new product: a cut-through indicator that is used with their closure labels to make any cutting of the seal immediately noticeable.
At the same time, anyone trying to tamper with the seal, will find it difficult to realign to hide their traces.
The cut-through indicator isn’t a standard item, but is custom made to use with a customer’s existing or new closure seal labels.
As such, the closure can incorporate a number of special features such as graphics or structures to meet each customers needs.
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Since the most common means of tampering with pharmaceutical packaging is cutting the sea and then covering it with transparent tape, this new indicator looks like a useful tool to help keep medicines safe. It is also designed to be cost-effective and to be suitable for use on various type of packaging materials.
Check out the Shreiner news page for more information
And if you are not familiar with the Tylenol tampering incident in 1982, when a number of people in the Chicago area died after taking contaminated Tylenol products, Wikipedia has the details.
After these events, tamper-resistant solutions for pharmaceutical packaging began to be taken seriously.
