Abstract

Jony Mallik*, Md. Feroz Alam, Syed Mainul Hossain, Mahfujur Rahaman, Ferdousi Begum, Joyeta Das

ABSTRACT

Pharmaceutical Packaging is the art of designing & science of protecting the drug content by enclosing in an authentic and suitable package for presentation, preservation, promotion & desired use. Product packages & analysis of packaging materials means a lot to pharmaceutical professionals to release quality packaging materials for production department. Due to advancement of Pharmaceutical Analysis, It has been noticed that most of serious issues like product stability, safety, sell, market complaint & product quality may occur just because of Packaging materials. The selection of the packaging materials for a particular drug content is based on the physical and chemical characters of that content. The stability of a drug in its solid, liquid, gel or paste form is mostly depend on the ability of the packaging materials intended to be used to protect the content from chemical degradation. A chemical degradation of drug may affect its physical properties like appearance, hardness, friability, dissolution, disintegration, moisture content & weight variation. The main purpose of this review is to provide all essential information regarding pharmaceutical packaging science & packaging materials.