Health food will promote its packaging materials

With the rapid development of the health food industry, its packaging materials and containers have begun to take the lead and become an important part of the development of health food industrialization.

According to investigations from the State Drug Administration, the overall technical level of China's health food and pharmaceutical packaging materials industry is not high and its grades are low, lagging far behind developed countries. Two of these indicators are sufficient to show that the pharmaceutical and health food packaging, which accounts for about 65% of the total amount of preparations, has not reached the level of the international 1980s; the contribution rate of packaging materials quality and packaging to the pharmaceutical and health food industry is low. In developed countries, pharmaceuticals and health foods account for 30% of their value, while China's share is less than 10%.

Faced with global economic integration and China's accession to the WTO, some experts predict that the next five years will be a critical period for the rapid development of China's pharmaceutical and health food packaging industry.

Experts pointed out that China's pharmaceutical, health food packaging industry annual output value of about 15 billion yuan, only to meet the needs of domestic production companies 80%. In particular, compared with the emerging new dosage forms, the matching medicines and health food packaging materials are too slow to follow, and they are far from meeting the requirements of new product development.

At the same time, with people’s attention to health and the maturity of production technology, a number of high-quality pharmaceutical and health food packaging materials will be popularized in the coming years.

In the Outline of the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” for the development of pharmaceutical packaging industry in China, detailed development plans have been formulated for various types of medicines such as injections, injections, infusions, capsules and tablets, and health food packaging. Natural capsules and aluminum caps that are commonly used in health food packaging will be gradually phased out in the next two to three years, and replaced by safer and more effective butyl capsules and aluminum-plastic composite caps.

Relevant experts suggest that the pharmaceutical and health food packaging materials industry in the transitional transition period contains attractive business opportunities. At the same time, it is precisely the golden stage for pharmaceutical and health food packaging materials companies to take advantage of development opportunities. Related companies should respond early and study vigorously. Develop new packaging technologies and materials that are suitable for the development of the pharmaceutical industry and health food industry and actively compete for market share.