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Obviously, when you package a product you want to protect it from the environment and make sure that the contents in the package do

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

n't get damaged and don't get out. But sometimes packaging companies just go a little bit too far. Think not? Well, let's take a

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

look at some of the worst packaging jobs out in the marketplace.

Back in the old days when you used to buy the latest Rolling Sto

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

es record, the shrink-wrap on the albums was pretty loose. And even when it wasn't, it was pretty easy to open up the albums. Jus

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

t take a sharp edge and run it across the open side of the album and your shrink-wrap was open. Today, it's not quite that easy.

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

n some CDs, the cellophane is so tight that the only way you're getting those things open is to crack them open. Heaven forbid som

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

ebody with arthritis tried to open up one of these things. Even young kids have problems with them.

And if you think CDs are hard

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

to open, have you ever tried opening a DVD? You know, the thin little boxes that contain these things that used to be on nice easy

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

to open video tape boxes. DVD manufacturers must really be the most sadistic people on this planet. Go on. Try to find an edge

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

f a DVD to open. You'll be searching for 30 minutes before you even get one-tenth of a way through getting the DVD out of the box.

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

Oh, but it gets worse. And this kind of packaging really applies to a number of things so we'll just use one example. Most of t

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

he portable electronic devices made today are pretty small so the packages don't have to be on bulky boxes anymore. So today, they

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

put things like portable CD players in those hard plastic molded packages where the plastic is molded to the actual item. Same sha

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

pe and size. No room between the plastic and the item itself. Well, that's not the worst part. See, if you try to open these thi

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

gs you will find that the plastic is so tightly glued to the cardboard backing behind it that you can't get your finger in between

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

the backing and the plastic. So there is no way to get the item out unless you either take a knife and cut through the plastic or

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

iterally rip the whole package to shreds.

Another good one is when you order items in the mail like CDs. The cardboard boxes that

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

these things are packed in are so strong that you can neither rip them open nor cut them open. The cardboard itself must be at le

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

st an eighth of an inch thick, maybe more. The only way to get these boxes open is to get a very strong man to pull them apart.

T

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

here are plenty more painful packages that we're going to cover in the last part of this two part series. The worst is yet to come

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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