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CfPA-The Center for Professional Advancement, New Brunswick, NJ
November 13-14, 2018
Who Should Attend?
This training is designed for personnel involved with packaging for pharmaceutical, medical devices/combination devices, cosmetics, and personal care products. Departments may include:
• Quality/Quality Assurance
• Package Engineering
• Supplier Development
• Product Development
• Logistics
• Manufacturing
Active participation and questions are encouraged throughout the course presentation. Course Description
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Organized by:
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CfPA-The Center for Professional Advancement |
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Invited Speakers:
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Jan Gates, President/Principal Packaging Engineer, PackWise Consulting |
Jan Gates has 30+ years of experience in package engineering for foods, pharmaceuticals, detergent, and medical devices with a BS in Food Science and MS in Packaging from Michigan State University. Her work includes individual contributions and leading teams for packaging material and systems design and development. The packaging design and development have been completed to meet regulatory, product protection, and customer use requirements; also, included are production optimization, validation, and minimal packaging for sustainability. She has previously worked for Bristol Myers Squib, Conagra, Lever Brothers, Dade Behring, and Abbott Vascular. She currently works as a consultant in her company PackWise Consulting and with Adept Packaging.
Ms. Gates works with ASTM D10 and F02 committees for rigid/flexible packaging and environmental package testing. She is also working as a US representative in various ISO TC 122 committees for packaging tests, vocabulary, labeling, and temperature-controlled product shipment. She was a task group lead with AMMI on a US guidance document for compliance with ISO 11607-1/-2 (packaging for terminally sterilized medical devices). The AMMI TIR 22 document has been converted into ISO/TS 16775. She is on the IoPP (Institute of Packaging Professionals) HealthPack Advisory board and is the Southern California IoPP Co-president.
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Deadline for Abstracts:
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n/a
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Registration:
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Please click here for registration information.
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E-mail:
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jmorbit@cfpa.com
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The importance of specifications and testing will be emphasized. The requirements for production testing and distribution hazards will be reviewed from a product, manufacturing, and potential regulatory standpoint.
The current packaging requirements to satisfy regulatory authorities will be examined from a world-wide perspective. Recent concerns on counterfeiting effects and methods being used to reduce the issues will be also be addressed.