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EU’s New Pharma Rules Will Lead to Larger Role for Coding Inks

Addition of ID codes for packaging for medicine will likely impact other products, such as food and cosmetics.

The European packaging sector is set to go through big changes in the next few years, as a result of the implementation of European Union legislation requiring individual items of medicines to carry unique identification codes. The measure will not only radically alter printing processes in pharmaceuticals packaging, but will reverberate across packaging in other sectors in Europe. The changes will require major improvements in the quality of the inks used in the coding of drugs on the Eur...

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