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Management Forum
This course provides an essential overview of pharmaceutical packaging and will be valuable for newcomers to this field. It will also act as a good refresher for those with more experience.
★★★★★ "Really enjoyed it. Thought it was well presented and clearly explained by Chris. I would recommend t... more (11)"
13-15 January 2025
+ 2-4 June 2025, 24-26 September 2025 »
from £1349
Gain crucial insights into the unique issues and challenges of pharmaceutical packaging to ensure product safety, compliance, and market success.
Effective packaging of pharmaceutical and healthcare products is critical not only for maintaining product integrity and safety but also for regulatory compliance and market acceptance. Packaging serves multiple functions beyond containment, including protection from environmental factors, ensuring product stability, and providing essential information to healthcare providers and patients. Understanding the intricacies of pharmaceutical packaging is vital for professionals involves in drug development, manufacturing, regulatory affairs, quality control, and logistics.
This introductory course is designed to equip delegates with a foundational understanding of pharmaceutical product packaging. It begins with a comprehensive regulatory overview, ensuring participants grasp the essential requirements and compliance standards governing pharmaceutical packaging. The programme also delves into crucial topics such as the selection of packaging materials, considerations for compatibility and stability (including ICH testing and extractables/leachables studies), and the role of packaging in new product development.
Additional topics include:
By the end of the course, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the key aspects of pharmaceutical packaging, enabling them to contribute effectively to the successful packaging of pharmaceutical packaging, enabling them to contribute effectively to the successful packaging of pharmaceutical products within their organisations.
This course is part of our GxP training (Good x Practice) course collection, which features a variety of topic areas to ensure you comply with the most recent quality guidelines. For more information on the latest EU GMP regulations, see our GMP training course covering the Annex 1.
Whether you are new to the industry, have a basic understanding of pharmaceutical packaging or are more familiar with the area but looking for a refresher, this course will provide you with valuable knowledge and insights from an expert who has worked in the field for more than 25 years.
Those who would benefit from attending include:
Chris Penfold is an experienced Freelance Packaging Development Specialist and Consultant; a self-motivated, achievement oriented, confident and creative leader with a proven track record in general and technical management. He is a packaging professional with over 25 years packaging development and NPD experience working on £million-brands in the OTC, healthcare and Rx pharma arenas for ‘blue-chip’ multinational companies such as Glaxo (GSK), CIBA (Novartis), Boots Healthcare and Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare.
He is an MBA graduate and Chartered Marketer with extensive cross-functional experience in a broad spectrum of related disciplines, including marketing, supply chain, QC and production. An ‘International Player’ with experience working in various European countries, Middle East, North America and extended business trips to the Far East. Underpinned by proven interpersonal skills, the ability to make things happen and experience gained from independent international consultancy projects and running his own business, Design Cognition Ltd.
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13-15 January 2025
Live online
09:00-16:45 UK (London) (UTC+00)
10:00-17:45 Paris (UTC+01)
04:00-11:45 New York (UTC-05)
Course code 14467
Until 09 Dec
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2-4 June 2025
Live online
09:00-16:45 UK (London) (UTC+01)
10:00-17:45 Paris (UTC+02)
04:00-11:45 New York (UTC-04)
Course code 14698
Until 28 Apr
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24-26 September 2025
Classroom
Rembrandt Hotel
London
09:00-16:45 UK (London)
Course code 14945
Optional £255/€356/$407 per night
Until 20 Aug
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* Early booking discounts may not be combined with other discounts or offers. As such, the discounts for 2nd/3rd/4th delegates are based on the full price; and apply only when booking multiple delegates on the same date.
Really good. Very thorough. Well constructed in a way that allows the presentation to be used as a reference doc later. The speaker was excellent.
May 20 2024
David Bellars
Supply Chain Manager, Cycle Pharmaceuticals Ltd
Jan 31 2023
Really enjoyed it. Thought it was well presented and clearly explained by Chris. I would recommend this course to others. Good pace and the information was clearly delivered.
Andy Borg-Myatt
Artwork Specialist, Kyowa Kirin International
Jan 31 2023
Very informative course with lots of training material
Sanna Sutinen
Specialist, Quality Systems, FinVector Oy
Jan 31 2023
Webinar was very good and informative. It gave a very good overall regulatory summary and the fact that the group was small enabled to participate and ask direct live questions during the course of the agenda, which was for me very helpful.
Orit Shahaf
Director, Regulatory Affairs, Taro Pharmaceutical Industries
Sep 28 2021
Job well done and beyond expectations. Would highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn anything about packaging. Documentation was outstanding and extremely helpful and amazingly well described.
Angela Turner
RA Director,
Sep 28 2021
Overall I quite enjoyed the webinar. Everything was thoughtful and easy to perceive. Particularly I liked the part when speaker introduced with the requirements of registration purposes in United States and compared with EU regulations.
Alise Spakevica
AS Kalceks
Sep 26 2018
Chris was friendly, approachable he has a wealth of knowledge and was happy to answer any questions. The course was very informative, its given me an insight into Regulatory overview and New Product developments and requirements of materials. Happy with the file given which can be referred back to if needed.
Lisa Hughes
Data & Artwork Implementation Administrator, Norgine Ltd
Apr 25 2018
Everything was excellent.
Iva Kapetanovic
Associate in Quality Management Department , ALIMS (Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia)
Apr 25 2018
All compliments. The course was very interesting and covered a lot of topics in this area.
Milan Milojevic
Associate in Licensing Department for Human Medicines, ALIMS (Medicines and Medical Devices Agency of Serbia)
Sep 26 2018
I enjoyed this course, I felt it delivered on its content and would recommend to a colleague. I think the speaker was knowledgeable in his field and facilitated open and interesting discussions throughout the course which meant people were comfortable to ask questions...
Becky Greenan
Senior Manager , Vectura Ltd
Apr 25 2018
Good informative slides covering the whole process.
Leah Frederiksen
Regulatory Affairs Compliance Officer, Martindale Pharma
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