Allied Development: Packaging Consulting and Publications recently released its global Pharmaceutical Packaging study, which examines the markets, technologies, and opportunities in pharmaceutical packaging around the world.

The Market Section includes an analysis of the drivers and trends for the drug industry, the corresponding analysis of the drivers and trends for pharmaceutical packaging, the current statistics of the global pharmaceutical packaging market, and quantitative projections and supporting discussion of the market through 2011. Forecasts and analyses are provided for these 12 segmentations:

- drug delivery method into the body
- primary package type
- secondary package type
- packaging materials used
- geographic region
- drug regulatory status
- drug production process
- sales distribution channel
- patient compliance features
- anti-counterfeiting features
- child-resistance features
- tamper-evidence features

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