TAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., located in Lake Forest, Illinois, can supply Prevacid NapraPACTM with two treatments.
There are two popular prescriptions within the blister pack: Naprosyn for arthritis and Prevacid for the treatment of related gastritis. TAP spokeswoman Katherine Stueland said that the two drugs are usually kept together.
"Wrapping the two drugs together makes a lot of sense. It also means having a written prescription and a combination prescription," explains Stueland. “Drugs can be confusing, but the packaging makes it easy to distinguish.†The first 2-in-1 package incorporates features that prevent children from opening easily, even for older people with arthritis, Stueland added.
MeadWestvaco Heathcare packaged DosepakTM is comprehensively convenient; first used for Procter & Gamble drug packaging, for which it received the 2003 American Star Best Appearance Award from the Packaging Society (AmeriStar).
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The TAP's Dosepak consists of a folded insert made from 5.4 kg of MeadWestvaco's EasySeal Plus material. This material is an extruded SBS coated in a narrow 10.8kg SBS box decorated with four-color offset printing. A piece of thermoformed polyvinyl chloride sheet on the insert prevents the blister card insert from being removed until the red circular portion is released onto the package.
The insert was secured by Anderson Packaging's thermoformed tin foil laminated substrate blister, which also operates shrink packaging. The blister structure supplied by Tekni-Films is Honeywell Specialty
Films 0.254mm polyvinyl chloride/0.0508mm polyethylene/0.152mm Aclar® PCTFE fluoropolymer film.
Dennis Kim, senior manager of TAP manufacturing technology, said: “After one year of thorough research on child protection packaging, we conducted a series of qualitative market research. Dosepak is considered easier to open, easier to use, and more flexible than other packaging designs.â€