An Audit on Design of Pharmaceutical Packaging

The packaging concept has been adopted from plants’ seed as it is guarded in a closed shell till it germinates in a suitable season. Therefore, a type of natural packaging results in protection, preservation, and production. In the modern era, packaging aims to secure the product's safety until usage. Delivering a product to the customers requires a suitable container and closure with non-interaction with the product by any external influence. The primary container protection is strengthened by the secondary ones, resulting in safe storage and enhanced stability. The display of essential information on the label with elegance ensures the integrity of the product. The label displays the name, strength and quality, identification number, storage instructions, usage directions, the product's expiry date, and the manufacturer's name and address. This information provides compliance aid to the patients. According to the regulatory body’s guidelines, all forms of counterfeiting must be guarded against. Packaging processes and related equipment need validation, and quality control of the equivalent is to be followed. The article discusses the packaging components' role and various types (materials, measurement, etc.), technology, design, regulatory guidelines and tests applied, types of hazards, labelling procedures with guidelines, and quality assurance and control. This review paper highlights structural features of various parts of containers, strip packaging, blister packaging, bubble packaging, and various types of injection vials that were not addressed in a previous publication on the packaging system. Graphical abstract