Describe four types of packaging that prevent tampering with medicine.

Pharmaceutical products are liable for public health and hence several safety measures are taken to ensure that the product reaches to the end user safely. For this, pharmaceuticals are packed in sterile containers to prevent the content from contamination, occurring because of several external factors such as environment elements and human tampering.

Different types of materials are used for pharmaceutical packaging, which includes both glass and plastic material. The benefit of using these materials is that they are easy to sterilize and prevent the content coming in contact with any other material. Using these materials, different type of pharmaceutical packaging is done. Some of them are listed below:

Aspetic processing
Aspetic processing entails creating packaging for medicine products that is sterile that is free of germs and will not lead to the degradation of contents in any condition. For this processing materials like glass and different types of plastic are used.

Blister pack
This type of packaging is usually done for tablets or capsules for unit dosing. This is designed in a formed plastic cavity containing a single dose. They are called single blisters and are often accompanied with a large sheet in order to provide multiple doses.

Ingression process
This is another form of pharmaceutical packaging process in which moisture or oxygen are entered the package to test the intensity of degradation. Since, pharmaceutical are subject to several degradation pathways, mostly due to hydrolysis and oxidation, it is important for the medicines to undergo ingression process.

Child safety
When it comes to child safety pharmaceutical packaging takes extra care by bottling medicines with caps that require a complicated motion to open them. This prevents children tampering the medicine and consuming it unnecessarily when they are unattended.

Labeling
When a product is being packed, it is also labeled containing all the information of the product. The label contains everything, be it manufacturing date, expiry date, bar code, product code, doses, composition of the medicine or any other note and warning. Labeling ensures that the medicine is consumed safely.

Tamper evident
Tamper evident is a feature of a pharmaceutical packaging that enables a consumer to ensure that a package is in its original state and has not been tampered with. This is a way that guarantees the integrity of the product. To make pharmaceuticals tamper evident various types of methods are used which makes the any sort of tampering action visible, hence preventing consumer buy pharmaceuticals that are not up to the standard.