TLMI Selects Void Label for Innovator Award

Schreiner MediPharm scored yet again with an intelligent solution at this year’s Tag and Label Manufacturers Institute (TLMI) awards competition. The Pharma-Comb Void label received the international Innovator Award of the North American TLMI. Furthermore, the two-layered label with an integrated void effect and a detachable label part secured the first-place award in the ‘flat-bed screen printing category’. The labels were developed with and for SciClone Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a US-based, China-focused specialty pharmaceutical company, for its product ZADAXIN (thymalfasin), an immunostimulatory agent for the treatment of cancer and hepatitis and a vaccine adjuvant.

Every year, the TLMI recognises the best products of the label industry. Innovation as well as printing and finishing quality are aspects that receive particular attention. Schreiner MediPharm convinced the judges with the Pharma-Comb Void label and won the Innovator Award plus the first-place award in the ‘flat-bed screen printing’ category. “Thanks to its unique design, the Pharma-Comb Void label prevents an undetected reuse of a vial with an original label,” said Ann L. Merchant, Global President of Schreiner MediPharm. “The TLMI accolades underscore the novelty value and technical sophistication of this concept for product security.”

The label disintegrates into several components when used for the first time. In addition, when pulling off the tear strip that wraps around the closure cap, two indicator fields are exposed with the words ‘Opened’ and ‘Used’. This helps avoid used vials being refilled for the purpose of selling them as perceived originals. Patients are thus protected from administration of substances that are ineffective or may even be harmful to their health. Furthermore, the Pharma-Comb Void label offers a value-added benefit to healthcare staff because the integrated label part can be used to reliably mark filled syringes.

Schreiner MediPharm, a business unit of Schreiner Group GmbH & Co. KG, +49 89 31584 5400, info@schreiner-medipharm.com, www.schreiner-medipharm.com.