Volume: 1, Issue: 2
ABSTRACT
Packaging has emerged as a key battleground in the highly competitive pharmaceutical industry. By 2027, it is anticipated that the global market for smart packaging would cost total of $144.23 billion (1). Smart packaging is not a single type of packaging, but rather a technology-enhanced category of packaging systems that aims to provide a far more active service than just passively containing consumer goods. It provides a total solution by serving dual purposes viz., monitoring product changes or its environment (intelligent) and act upon these changes (active) (2,3,4). Every stakeholder in the pharmaceutical supply chain would get benefits from smart packaging. It can improve patient compliance, confirm authenticity, assist tracking, anti-counterfeiting, deter addiction, extend product shelf-life, and reinforce sustainability profiles (2).
