For professionals in the healthcare industry, the ultimate mission is to provide life-saving medicines to patients around the world. Critical to that mission is patient safety. Patients around the globe trust that their medicines are both safe and effective. The industry’s unwavering commitment is to ensure that their trust is well placed.
The healthcare industry has often been ‘reactionary’ when it comes to improvements in packaging to ensure patient safety. The most widely known instance of this was in 1982 with deaths relating to adulterated acetaminophen in the United States. The swift industry response is well documented and has become a business school study standard. As a result, tamper-evident features in packaging are now the standard and the typical consumer would be concerned to find them lacking. Common package labelling instructs the patient to look for these features and clearly states to avoid the medication if the features are not present or appear to have been tampered with.
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