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What are the so-called safety features on packaging materials?

The safety features consist of two elements placed on the packaging of a medicinal product:

  1. a unique identifier, a unique sequence carried by a two-dimensional barcode allowing the identification and authentication of the individual pack on which it is printed; and
  2. a device allowing the verification of whether the packaging of the medicinal product has been tampered with (anti-tampering device).


[GMP Compliance Adviser, Chapter C.8.2.1]

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