GMP News - Packaging

The USP published a draft of a new general chapter on the Application of Moisture Vapor Transmission Rates for Solid Oral Dosage Forms in Plastic Packaging Systems. Additionally the general chapter Containers—Performance Testing <671> has been revised and published for comment in the same issue of PF.

Several revised Ph. Eur. packaging chapters have been recently adopted by the Ph. Eur. Commission. These general chapters will appear in Ph. Eur. 9.6. Read more about the revised chapters on plasticized PVC materials and glass containers.

The USP recently posted the announcement of its intent to cancel and redevelop the drafts of packaging chapters previously published in the Pharmacopeial Forum. Read more about USP´s chapters on glass containers and elastomeric closures.

With USP 41 - NF 36 the revised general chapter <671>  Containers - Performance Testing will become official on May 1, 2018.

The revised Ph. Eur. Monograph 3.2.9. on rubber closures will become official on July 1, 2018 (Supplement 9.5). Read more about Rubber closures for containers for aqueous parenteral preparations, for powders and for freeze-dried powders.

The USP General Chapters Packaging and Distribution Expert Committee recently posted the intent to revise General Chapter <381>. The Chapter currently includes a reference to <231> Heavy Metals, which will be omitted on January 1, 2018. Read more about the revision of Chapter <381> Elastomeric Closure for Injections.

The ECA Foundation's Visual Inspection Interest Group has been conducting the annual conference "Particles in Parenterals" for several years now. For the planning of the 2018 event you can become involved as an active part.