Multi-faceted Approach Beyond ChildResistant Packaging: for Managing Unintentional Pharmaceutical Poisoning

Packaging ensures the safety and it is a cost-effective way to show, safeguard, identify, contain, make a product convenient to use, and ensure compliance with regulations during the duration of storage, transportation, display, and consumption. For the duration of the product's shelf life, the package must guarantee acceptable product stability (1, 2). COVID-19 highlighted the importance of packaging in the pharmaceutical industry. Pharmaceutical packaging companies had increased their productivity to support the rising demand for containers, vials, blister packs, containers, bottles, cartridges, pouches, and others. The global pharmaceutical packaging market generated US$ 100.9 B in 2020 and it is projected to reach US$ 267.4 B by the end of 2027. The Indian packaging market was worth $50.5 B in 2019, and it is anticipated to grow by 26.4% between 2020 and 2025 to reach $204.81 B (3).