Schreiner MediPharm wins TLMI Innovator Award

Schreiner MediPharm, a Germany-based global provider of specialty pharmaceutical labels, earned the Innovator Award from the TLMI for the company’s Pharma-Comb Void label, which increases product safety by preventing the reuse of authentic packaging components by counterfeiters.

Schreiner’s Pharma-Comb Void label also took first place in the TLMI Awards’ Flat Screen Printing category.

The labels were developed with and for SciClone Pharmaceuticals, a US-based, China-focused specialty pharmaceutical company, for its product Zadaxin (thymalfasin), an immunostimulatory agent for the treatment of cancer and hepatitis, and as a vaccine adjuvant.

Each year, TLMI invites manufacturers to enter an international competition recognizing the best products in the label industry. Innovation, printing and finishing quality are high on the list of deciding factors for judges.

The Innovator Award recognized the Pharma-Comb Void label’s novel concept for product security. To counteract the practice of refilling previously used medicine vials, Schreiner MediPharm’s solution consists of a multi-part product label with integrated security features.

The Pharma-Comb Void label is functionally destroyed during its initial use. When the label’s tear strip – which also runs around the closure cap – is removed, the inscriptions ‘Opened’ and ‘Used’ appear in the film’s two indicator fields. This makes the undetected reuse of a glass container with an original label virtually impossible.

Used vials bearing conventional labels, even when they are equipped with overt security features like holograms or color-shifting inks, can be filled a second time and sold as originals without this being detectable. Schreiner’s label takes clear and easily-identifiable steps to counteract this practice. The label also offers a valuable added benefit for healthcare personnel: when the label is opened, a detachable part is released that serves to mark the syringe accordingly.

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