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Rolande Hall is a Fellow of the Institute of Packaging. Hall has more than 40 years of experience in packaging, gained in a variety of technical positions at both packaging manufacturers and packagers. Hall’s packaging career began when he joined John Waddington of Leeds. Hall’s area of expertise is medical device packaging and labelling. Several of his papers have been published in MDT magazine (now EMDT). He served on CEN technical committees CEN/TC 225 and CEN TC 357, contributed a chapter to the Medical Devices Manual and currently offers his services as a Medical Packaging Consultant, trading as Medical Pack Solutions, based in Ireland. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of EMDT and ASTM Committee D10 on Packaging. With more than 30 years of experience in medical device packaging, Hall has helped companies in Europe, Israel and Australia resolve their packaging and labelling issues.
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Packaging Q&A
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We have had some serious Simulated Distribution ISTA 2A failures and I am trying to get a better idea on what makes packaging good. I am trying to look for a seminar or something that could benefit my entire company. Is there anything of that sort or is this knowledge just learned throughout life?Answered April 2nd, 2012 by Expert:The UK Packaging Society (formerly the Institute of Packaging) runs a range of courses covering packaging topics including pharmaceutical packaging; however it does not run a medical device packaging course. In the United States, the Institute of Packaging Professionals runs a short course titled “Fundamentals of Packaging Technology”. Conferences and Seminars can be a good source of general medical packaging information. UBM Canon run a series of medical device and packaging trade shows and seminars, all of which can be a source of helpful information.
Some of us honed our packaging skills by reading the trade journals and gaining hands on experience, others spent a few years in college before practising their art. It does mean that to gain an in depth knowledge of medical device packaging takes time. It may be appropriate for you to have a short course tailored to deal with the specific needs of your company, your products and your resources.