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Blister Packaging

When people think of blister packaging they immediately think "medical" because blister packs are commonly used as unit-dose packaging for pharmaceutical tablets, capsules or lozenges.

Blister packs can provide barrier protection for shelf life requirements, and a degree of tamper resistance.

In the USA, blister packs are mainly used for packing physician samples of drug products, or for Over The Counter (OTC) products in the pharmacy.

In other parts of the world, blister packs are the main packaging type since pharmacy dispensing and re-packaging are not common.

Blister packs are created by means of a form-fill-seal process at the designated contract packaging company.

A form-fill-seal process means that the blister pack is created from rolls of flat sheet or film, filled with the pharmaceutical product and closed (sealed) on the same equipment.

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Consumer Blister Packaging

On the consumer packaging side of the coin, blister packs consist of carded packaging where goods such as toys, hardware, and electrical items are contained between a specially made paperboard card and clear pre-formed plastic such as PVC.

The plastic shell is vacuum-formed around a mold so it can contain the item snugly. The card is brightly colored and designed depending on the item inside, and the PVC is affixed to the card using heat and pressure to activate an adhesive (heat seal coating) on the blister card.

The adhesive is strong enough so that the pack may hang on a peg, but weak enough so so that the package can be easily opened. Sometimes, with large items, the card has a perforated window for access.

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