Geneva Police Participating In National Drug Take-Back Program April 30 (City of Geneva, IL)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. City of Geneva, IL). The Geneva Police Department will be working with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in collecting expired or unwanted prescription medications Saturday, April 30 as part of the National Drug Take-Back Day. People can turn in their medications from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m ... Items that will be accepted include. ... Blister packs can be submitted without being placed in a plastic bag....

Amcor Packaging Wins Three Alufoil Trophies for Consumer Convenience, Technical Innovation and Resource Efficiency

Edit Stockhouse 12 Apr 2016
Photo - http.//photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160412/354128. Consumer Convenience ... Technical Innovation ... Winning in the category of Resource Efficiency is Amcor's Formpack® Ultra, a new cold form blister for pharmaceutical products ... 1) design a smaller blister card, or 2) add more cavities without increasing the blister card size ... Its reduced size also meets patients' needs for smaller, more discreet and convenient blister packs." ... Tel....

Amcor Packaging Wins Three Alufoil Trophies for Consumer Convenience, Technical Innovation and Resou (Amcor Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Apr 2016
(Source. Amcor Limited) Consumer Convenience ... The fondue can be eaten directly from the bowl ... Winning in the category of Resource Efficiency is Amcor's Formpack® Ultra, a new cold form blister for pharmaceutical products ... 1) design a smaller blister card, or 2) add more cavities without increasing the blister card size ... Its reduced size also meets patients' needs for smaller, more discreet and convenient blister packs.'. ENDS ... About Amcor....

Amcor to Showcase Packaging Sustainability in Chicago (Amcor Limited)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Apr 2016
The pack itself serves as a measuring device to safely and easily mix the correct proportion of water and medicine. The pack is light and extremely durable, while keeping the product safe and hygienic and nimble enough to reach the remotest of families in Africa ... Its reduced size also meets patients' need for smaller, more discreet and convenient blister packs....

On Athletics: Amateurs posing the biggest doping threat

Edit The Irish Times 08 Apr 2016
Our physics teacher back in De La Salle had a theory that if everyone in China jumped up and down at the same time the earth would go out of orbit. Who could have imagined nearly 30 years later that theory might be put to the test ... It’s happening on a suitably revolutionary scale, only with the full trumpeting of the Chinese government ... Along with the usual T-shirt and blister pack was a bar of imported grape-scented soap ...    ....

Drug dealers using Instagram and Tinder to find young customers

Edit The Guardian 07 Apr 2016
Supported by. Unicef ... The process is simple ... Online dealers mostly sell their drugs as “research” even though pills are put in bottles or blister packs and powders in capsules.“Despite packaging them specifically for human consumption, vendors attempt plausible deniability when it comes to what they sell,” says Moe, a former user who bought legal and illegal drugs online from the age of 16 ... Weeding out offenders ... She says ... ....

Sick? Go easy on the antibiotics

Edit The Hindu 07 Apr 2016
A young man barges into the air-conditioned pharmacy nearly sneezing his nose off. “Give me something for a headache/cold,” he tells the pharmacist as he wipes his runny nose on his sleeve ... After a brief conversation — one that you might have expected the young Turk to have had with his GP — the pharmacist gives him a long list of antibiotics, an antihistamine and a blister pack of antacids ... Dr ... R ... Ghafur explains....

There's another terrifying public health crisis in Michigan

Edit Business Insider 06 Apr 2016
See Also ... Blame for the tragedy that paralyzed the community and threatens the health and long-term development of thousands of children rests with everyone from Michigan Gov ... “She gasps, desperately sipping the air but inhaling little or none. ‘It’s like being a fish out of water,’ she says.” ... $15 to $20 a pop) and the blister packs of albuterol, the stimulant medicine that fuels nebulizers ($10 a dose),” according to Newsweek ... ....

Choking to Death in Detroit: Flint Isn't Michigan's Only Disaster In the magazine

Edit Newsweek 30 Mar 2016
Jacqueline Cason didn’t expect to be crawling down the stairs of her own damn house at 38 years old. When Cason lived in Mississippi, her asthma was annoying but manageable—a puff from an inhaler now and again ... Now she’s awakened in the morning, three days a week, at least, and sometimes seven, by an asthma attack ... $15 to $20 a pop) and the blister packs of albuterol, the stimulant medicine that fuels nebulizers ($10 a dose) ... ....

When These 7 Types of Plastic Are Dangerous

Edit Alternet 23 Mar 2016
Plastic is everywhere in our society, and it is wreaking havoc with our health ... 1. PET ... 2. HDPE ... PVC can be flexible or rigid, and is used for plumbing pipes, clear food packaging, shrink wrap, plastic children’s toys, tablecloths, vinyl flooring, children’s play mats, and blister packs (such as for medicines) ... PS, also popularly known as Styrofoam, is used for cups, plates, take-out containers, supermarket meat trays, and packing peanuts....

Global Blister Packaging Market 2015-2019 - Demand for Interactive & User-friendly Packs is Rising - ...

Edit Business Wire 22 Mar 2016
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http.//www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ds84gj/global_blister) has announced the addition of the "Global Blister Packaging Market 2015-2019" report to their offering. The report forecasts the global blister packaging market to grow at a CAGR of 6.80% over the period 2015-2019. A blister pack is made up of aluminium foil or plastic with a cavity or pocket made from thermoformed plastic ... ....

Nostalgia a draw for new Secret Headquarters in Evansville

Edit Seattle Post-Intelligence 22 Mar 2016
Pac Man and Area 51 ... There's also hundreds of comic books, a smorgasbord of old toys still in and out of blister packs and other merchandise that will take people back to their childhood, he said ... > ....

ESMA shows the potential of functional printing at drupa 2016 (Drupa - World Market Print Media, Publishing and Converting)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Mar 2016
(Source. Drupa - World Market Print Media, Publishing and Converting) ... disposable testers with smart tags ... Smart wearables and smart sensors increasingly find applications in medical and pharmaceutical sectors, for instance quick test strips for diabetics, blood analysers, smart blister packsHealthcare is one of the markets which embrace new solutions and enable successful business cases of printers who decided to 'go functional' ... Tel....
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