No matter how advanced your pharmaceutical product is, it still risks being compromised if its packaging can’t endure the physical and environmental stresses of shipping. Manufacturers in highly regulated industries, such as pharmaceutical, often face uncertainty around how to replicate real-world shipping conditions in a controlled and measurable way. Ensuring packaging integrity, through each and every mile of its journey, is essential, to maintain product efficacy, achieve regulatory compliance and safeguard patient safety.

The Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing (BPT) network of laboratories offers comprehensive shipping distribution studies to meet both regulatory expectations and your product’s unique challenges. Using state-of-the-art equipment and methodologies, we can assess the durability of your packaging system under the dynamic and static stresses it will potentially encounter during distribution. 

From manual drops to thermal cycling, humidity exposure, and vibration, our simulations reflect real-world transit scenarios. We will also evaluate how packaging performance is impacted by environmental extremes, which is critical for products sensitive to temperature shifts or humidity fluctuations. 

Each test is designed to confirm that your packaging retains seal integrity, protects product quality, and meets regulatory requirements from agencies, including the FDA and EMA. 

• Simulation of transit and storage conditions using ASTM, ISTA, and ISO standard protocols 
• Environmental conditioning including thermal, humidity, and altitude simulations
• Vibration testing across a range of transport modes and frequencies
• Shock and drop testing to assess physical impact resistance
• Custom testing setups for unique shipping configurations

Our clients rely on our ability to validate the performance of labelling and secondary packaging throughout the shipping process. We assess everything from adhesive strength and legibility of printed data to abrasion resistance during transit.

Our shipping distribution studies are often integrated with container closure integrity, shelf-life, and stability testing programmes, offering you a complete view of packaging performance throughout the product lifecycle. 

With decades of pharmaceutical packaging expertise, Eurofins BPT has become the trusted partner to a whole host of pharmaceutical manufacturers, who have come to rely on us to ensure their products reach their patients as intended: safe, stable, and compliant.