Health packaging needs to be well thought-through.
Medical devices play a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases as well as in improving the quality of life for people suffering from disabilities. The devices range from disposables typically used at healthcare centers with a lower risk to the patient to high-risk products used in surgical care. The safety and well-being of the patient cannot be compromised. Therefore, Health packaging Australia needs to be implemented with extensive and documented evaluations.
A health packaging Australia not only ensures that the device is sterile when delivered to the hospital or healthcare center, but it must also be easy to open without any particles coming loose. It also has to withstand long storage, often for years, without changing performance.
Flexible primary health packaging Australia is used both as a protective covering to prevent the ingress of microorganisms as well as a sterile barrier system (SBS). The range of sophisticated SBS materials allows single-use medical devices to be sterilized during the manufacture with the sterilization method required by the product.
Folding cartons provide excellent secondary protection for individually packed medical devices but also for multi-packs. The secondary packaging is an important tool to provide end users with accurate on-pack information.
Since healthcare can be a matter of life, the tailored packaging solutions we provide can contribute to safer and more manageable care by maintaining stringent hygienic environments, ensuring high security and pack integrity.
Health Packaging Protects Children
Children are known for eating things that they shouldn’t. If a child gets into a parent’s medication, the results could be deadly. Pharmaceutical packaging companies manufacture child-resistant packaging to prevent this kind of tragic accident.
Child-resistant packaging, often known as CR packaging is a special packaging that manufacturers use to reduce the risk of children consuming hazardous materials. Child-resistant packaging for pharmaceuticals is made to be difficult to open. However, manufacturers design it in a way such that most adults can access the contents of the package. Package testing helps to determine if adults with disabilities and aged adults can access the packaging or not. Generally, manufacturers implement child-resistant packaging by using a safety cap. Safety regulation often requires the packaging of pharmaceuticals to include such caps. Prescription drugs, drugs that are sold over the counter, opioids, and nicotine-containing consumables commonly come in such packaging. Besides caps and closures, blister packaging and even cartons have child-resistant variations.
Manufacturers have used child-resistant caps and closures for quite a long time. Most of these caps come with a locking mechanism besides the standard turn-to-open or close mechanism. The three popular mechanisms are Turn and lift, Push and turn and Squeeze and turn.
These caps come with a mechanism where the threads of the cap and the jar do not align unless the users disengage the locking mechanism. They can do this by the application of additional force, such as pressing the cap from the top or squeezing it from the sides. Depending on the design, the user has to apply some additional force to unlock the cap.
