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The Food and Drug Administration continues to be challenged by limited financial resources. That was one of the messages from Donald E. Marlowe, FDA agency standards coordinator, during his March 8 keynote address that launched this year’s HealthPACK medical device conference in New Orleans. “Packaging is one of the most important issues in designing medical products,” Marlowe told an audience that by unofficial count was about 160. He also said “packaging contributed to the largest number of product failures,” although not recalls. The problems included mislabeling and seal failures.
• Maxline 2 applies infrared thermal imaging technology to inspect seals and generate control outputs with no negative effect to production time or speed
• inspects for hot-seal defects from contaminants in the seal area or for overheated or unevenly heated seal bars or heaters, as well as cold-seal defects from underheated seal bars or heaters
