Tamper verification features for medicinal products packaging

Directive 2011/62/EU, the “Falsified Medicines Directive” (FMD), requires safety features for certain medicinal products to provide verification of the “authenticity and identification of individual packs”, and “a device allowing verification of whether the outer packaging has been tampered with”.
In January 2015 NEN-EN 16679 was published. This European standard specifies requirements and provides guidance for the application, use and check of tamper verification features to the packaging of medicinal products. Nine broad categories of tamper verification features are described. The standard meets the requirements of the FMD. (World Packaging Standardisation Newsletter, April 2015).
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