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Pharmaceutical Packaging, Labelling and Artwork Origination Training Course

This course has been designed to present a number of important developments in pharmaceutical packaging and labelling from regulations, standardisation and technology to innovation and artwork origination.

★★★★★ "Professional, detailed and relevant. Up to date and pitched at the right level"

12-13 Dec 2022

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Course overview

This seminar has been designed to present a number of important developments in pharmaceutical packaging and labelling regulations, standardisation, technology, innovation and artwork origination. The importance of packaging and labelling trends to improve patient safety and compliance and increase efficiency will be a particular focus of this event. New technologies and packaging innovations will be discussed and examples and case studies will be illustrated.

Why you should attend

Benefits in Attending:

Gain an update on current regulatory issues and packaging changes
Comply with the Falsified Medicines Directive
Discover the latest anti-counterfeiting strategies
Hear about tamper verification features for medicinal packaging
Discuss country specific ways to serialisation
Access key opinion leaders in packaging and labelling for the pharmaceutical industry
Hear the latest trends in packaging design and development
Understand how good design makes safer medicines
Gain an understanding of artwork asset management
Plan your packaging design to meet patient needs
Participate in practical round table discussions and workshops

Who should attend?

This conference will be of benefit to all those working in the following areas:-

Artwork/Origination
Packaging Technology
Business Development
Project Management
Good Manufacturing
Purchasing
Practice
Quality Assurance /Control
Logistics
Regulatory Affairs
Packing/Design/Labelling
Technical Writing

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Tony Harper

IRCA Certified QMS & PS 9000 Lead Auditor.

After working for over 30 years in the pharmaceutical industry, Tony Harper provides auditing, consultancy, training and certification services for the Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Industries and their suppliers particularly those implementing ISO 9000, ISO 13485, ISO 15378, PS 9000 and PS 9100. He also carries out Notified Body CE Medical Device audits.
He was instrumental in setting up the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA), Pharmaceutical Quality Group (PQG) in 1977 and was its Chairman for 15 years. He was a Committee Member until 2005 and is currently a member of the PQG Partners Team who have developed the PS 9000 Series of documents. He is also a Trustee, Board Member and Honorary Treasurer of the Chartered Quality Institute (CQI). In addition, Tony lectures on Quality Management at the Brighton University QP Post-Graduate Diploma course.
As the UK principal expert, he is working with the International Standards Organization drafting standards (ISO 9001, ISO 9004) and ISO 15378 for Pharmaceutical Packaging Materials and with BSI, CEN and ISO on Braille, patient information and tamper evidence. He is Chairman of the Braille Medicines Forum. Tony is also working on pharmaceutical artwork/origination guidelines.

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George Barrie

George Barrie is a Consultant to the Pharmaceutical Packaging Industry.
Until recently he was with Actavis where his role was to bring all elements of packaging design, regulatory requirements and production together and explore design-led solutions, thus aiding compliance and embracing forward-thinking across the packaging process and value chain. He headed up a team that provided a centralised ‘Packaging Centre of Excellent’ supplying Actavis operations globally. The team was and continues to be, driven by the philosophy of “Making Medicine Accessible”.
He started out with a background in design and subsequently moved into the print and packaging field 12 years ago where he gained broad experience working for a supplier to innovator pharmaceutical companies. Experience on both sides of the packaging value-chain has given him a unique insight into some of the key problems and solutions facing the Pharmaceutical sector.
He is an active member of a number of Pharmaceutical industry bodies and firmly believes that successful packaging design and development will be best achieved by a fully consultative process.

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Jan MacDonald

Jan MacDonald is a pharmacist by profession and is currently Group Manager for the Access, Information and Medicines Standards Group in the Vigilance and Risk Management of Medicines Division at the MHRA. She has undertaken a number of assessment and management roles within the agency. Prior to this she was principal pharmacist for quality assurance and quality control in the NHS.

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Suzanne Ivory

Suzanne Ivory joined the Perigord Group in 2005 where she currently works as the Group Quality Manager for the software development, artwork management and printing sections of the business.
She has 18 years experience as a Quality Manager implementing and managing quality systems such as ISO 9001:2008 and PS 9000 in a range of companies which service the pharmaceutical industry including Printing, Finishing, Packaging, Artwork studio’s and Software development. Suzanne is a qualified IRCA auditor for ISO 9001: 2000, ISO 14000 and PS 9000.
Over the last 3 years she was heavily involved in updating the PS9000:2011 standard which was published on the 14th September 2011. This involved working with a team of industry experts from pharmaceutical companies and suppliers to the pharmaceutical industry giving her a detailed insight into the audit requirement and best practises within the pharmaceutical packaging environment.

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Dieter Moessner

Edelmann GmbH, Heidenheim/Germany
Dieter Mößner has been working as Project Engineer Pharma and was previously a team leader in the Prepress area for Edelmann GmbH. He has been responsible for artwork services and for print data communication for the Edelmann group (www.edelmann.de) producing folding cartons, leaflets and labels for the pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries in 13 sites world-wide. His job is to consult customers and artwork agencies in artwork creation, print data communication and typesetting workflows.
He composed parts of the “Technical Guidelines Braille on folding cartons”, published by the German Folding Cartons Association FFI (www.ffi.de), and the guidelines “Braille on Folding Cartons”, published by the European Carton Makers Association ECMA (www.ecma.org). He is Convenor of CEN/TC 261/SC 5/WG 12 “Marking”. This working group at the European committee for standardisation CEN (www.cen.eu) has created the European standard EN 15823:2010 “Braille on Packaging for Medicinal Products”. It has just recently completed the works on the creation on EN 16679 – the European standard on “Tamper verification features for medicinal product packaging”. Up to its publication in January 2013 the contents of the European standard EN 15823 had been transformed into an International standard ISO 17351 “Braille on packaging for medicinal products” within ISO/TC 122 packaging. This project has been processed within ISO/ TC 122/WG 9 “Accessible design” with Dieter Mößner / Germany as project leader.
He is also Chairman of the German working groups NA 115-03-01 AA “Braille on packaging” and “Tamper verification features for medicinal product packaging”. After six years being the Vice-chairman of the packaging standards committee NAVp (www.din.navp.de) at the German Standards Institute DIN (www.din.de) he became its Chairman in March 2013.

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Book Pharmaceutical Packaging, Labelling and Artwork Origination Live online training

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30% off the 2nd delegate*
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12-13 Dec 2022

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09:00-17:15 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:00-18:15 Paris (UTC+01)
04:00-12:15 New York (UTC-05)
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EUR 1,539 1,819
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Reviews of IPI's Pharmaceutical Packaging, Labelling and Artwork Origination training course

Very good standard of speakers as always.

Oct 23 2019

Cath Norris United Kingdom
Global Packaging Technologist, Norgine Ltd

Oct 23 2018

Excellent, very informative

Caroline Byrne Ireland
MDM Artwork Assistant, Servier Industries Ireland

Oct 23 2018

Speakers were well prepared.

Zeljka Davosir Klaric Croatia
Coordinator for National Procedure, Croatian Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices

Oct 23 2018

Friendly and well organised.

Andy Linney United Kingdom
Principal Designer , Cambridge Consultants

Oct 10 2017

Professional, detailed and relevant. Up to date and pitched at the right level

Daniel McNaught United Kingdom
Senior Director, EU Manufacturing and Supply Chain, Zogenix International

Oct 10 2017

Really excellent content and speakers

Martina Forristal Ireland
Quality Manager, Perigord Premedia Ltd

Oct 10 2017

Content and presentations were very interesting, speakers kept good atmosphere.

Petra Dimić Croatia
Artwork and Module 1 Specialist, Xellia d.o.o

Oct 10 2017

Very good effort!

Vasiliki Ntafi Switzerland
Global Quality Manager, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

Oct 10 2017

Experienced speakers providing valuable recommendations. Helpful concrete examples

Peggy Pontabry Switzerland
Regulatory Labelling Manager, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

Oct 10 2017

All very informative and well run

Rachel Barclay United Kingdom
Associate Director Labelling & Artwork , Norgine Ltd

Oct 10 2017

I enjoyed the conference - very informative and a good pace. It never felt like it was "dragging on".

Nick Godden United Kingdom
Clinigen Group plc

Oct 11 2016

A very well put together course covering the current labelling challenges facing the pharma industry in meeting the latest regulations. The speakers were all very enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge and giving guidance to improve how we work in this industry. I have been on one of these courses before and think it is essential to attend every few years to keep abreast of the latest topics.

Liz Campbell United Kingdom
Artwork Co-ordinator, Britannia Pharmaceuticals

Oct 11 2016

Overall, I would say the presentation was good and speakers were professional and friendly

Mreena Ballah Pulton United Kingdom
Global Packaging Technologist, Norgine Limited

Oct 11 2016

An excellent course to broaden the mind of packaging-orientated emplyees with presentation from passionate industry-leading key figures giving me confidence that what I was being taught was the best information/opinion available

Adam Goodall United Kingdom
Artwork Specialist, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals Europe Ltd

Oct 11 2016

I did enjoy the course, all speakers were great and kept the momentum going

Shelley Browning United Kingdom
Senior Regulatory Affairs Officer, The Boots Company PLC

Oct 11 2016

Very interesting topics

Thierry Adatte Switzerland
Associate Manager, Celgene Logistics Sàrl

Oct 11 2016

Course was good and speakers very engaging

Barbara Pisano United Kingdom
Scientific Assessor, MHRA

Oct 11 2016

It was good, very useful and I will recommend it to our staff

Nawaf Matar AlMotairi Saudi Arabia
Saudi Food and Drug Authority

Oct 11 2016

I appreciated the limited number of participants, which allowed to have discussions within the group during the sessions as well as exchange of experience with other participants during breaks

Tamara Huber Switzerland
Senior Manager, CSL Behring AG

United Kingdom