Packaging
Pharmapack: How innovations in Packaging and Drug Delivery Packaging Enhance Health Product Safety
Monday 22. September 2008 - The 8th edition of Pharmapack will take place on the 21st and 22nd of January 2009 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris, France.
Pharmapack, the first European and international platform, is organized in a friendly atmosphere encouraging exchanges between the pharmaceutical and the health products packaging specialists. Its a human scale exhibition and a conference program, which will take stock of the latest innovations in the field.
The exhibition will gather over 170 companies representing the leading designers, manufacturers and suppliers of materials, medical devices, packaging, services, technology and production equipment, etc.
Over 2500 experts are expected to attend, coming from 50 countries, representing the health establishments, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies specialists in: packaging development and purchasing, R&D and production, pharmacists, teachers-researchers.
In conjunction, there are 2 days of high level technical conferences with 35 lectures, held by recognized specialists, which will address issues related to packaging innovations in:
Patient nutrition, chaired by Dr. Catherine Blanchon, Operations – Supply Chain Quality Management, Nestlé Nutrition, Switzerland and Pr Jean-Claude Chaumeil, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université René Descartes Paris V, France
Packaging of drugs for clinical trials, chaired by Mrs. Marylène Delaunay, Clinical Packaging Operations – Responsable Production, Sanofi-Aventis – Vitry, France, Mrs. Dominique Deldycke, Direction Département Produits pour investigations Cliniques, Sanofi-Aventis – Vitry, France, and Mrs. Annick Tibi, Pharmacist in charge of clinical Trials, AP-HP, France
Packaging of liquid forms and injectables for the diabetes treatment, chaired by Dr Isabelle Debrix, Pharmacist, Hôpital Tenon, France and Mr. Jean-Marc Binet, JMB Consultant, France
“Garanteeing the quality of cancer preparation between the pharmacy and the patient: Practical problems
and solutions ?”: conference presented by Dr. Laurence Gauthier Villano, Pharmacien responsable de lUnité de reconstitution des anticancéreux des Hôpitaux TIMONE (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Marseille), France and by Dr. Bertrand Pourroy, Pharmacien Assistant Spécialiste, Hôpitaux de la TIMONE, France
Dry forms packaging and state of the art, chaired by Mrs. Laurence Denis, Primary Packaging Development Associate Director, UCB Pharma, Belgium and Pr Philippe Arnaud, Pharmacien des hôpitaux, Chef de service Hôpital Bichat-Claude Bernard AP-HP, Expert à lAgence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé, France
A novel approach in Ophtalmic drug delivery
« Health products combinations », conference held by Mr. Jean-Claude Ghislain, Director, Medical Device evaluation directorate, Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits de Santé, France
Packaging of nasal and pulmonary forms for asthma treatment, chaired by Dr. Olivier Bourdon, Pharmacien, Hôpital Robert Debré, France and Mr. Christophe Przybylski, Director of the Innovation Department, Laboratoires Pierre Fabre, France
On the 2nd day, the Pharmapack Awards Ceremony will award the innovative packaging contributing in a significant way to the good usage of drugs in the following categories: compliance, security, and medical device.