According to the EU, German customs withdrew 11.5 million counterfeit medicines from circulation in 2009 - 30 percent more than in the previous year. According to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO), up to ten percent of all medicines are now counterfeit, even in the supposedly safe regions of Europe and the USA, as the specialist medium PharmaTEC reported in its May issue.



The safety of medicines starts with the manufacturing process. How must systems be designed so that they are not contaminated with undesirable foreign substances during the filling and packaging process? How can cleaning concepts be integrated into the systems? Examples and concepts for this will be on display at this year's Interpack, which takes place in Düsseldorf from May 12 to 18, 2011. Around 2700 exhibitors from some 60 countries are expected to attend, occupying a good 174,000 square meters of net space in all 19 halls of the exhibition grounds. Plenty of space to discover innovations and trends in the field of pharmaceutical packaging.



You can read the full article in PharmaTEC issue no. 2. You can order a free sample copy from: pressestelle@vogel.de.



PharmaTEC is geared towards the specific information needs of specialists and managers in the pharmaceutical, functional food and cosmetics industries. The editorial team focuses primarily on the specific benefits of components, systems, processes and complete plants in operational practice. The range of specialist information is supplemented by the online portal www.process.de and the industry newsletter ePharmaTEC. PharmTEC is a special-interest magazine from PROCESS. Cross-media linking through InfoClick. PROCESS covers the market of the chemical, pharmaceutical and process engineering industries with up-to-date business and application-oriented technical information. The parent company Vogel Business Media is one of the leading German providers of specialist information with around 100 trade journals and 60 websites as well as numerous international activities. Its headquarters are in Würzburg. The company celebrates its 120th anniversary in 2011.