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The Prescrire Awards for 2010

The 2010 Prescrire Awards: chosen in all independence by Prescrire's Editorial staff

The 2010 Prescrire Packaging Awards
About the 2010 Prescrire Packaging Awards


The Packaging Awards focus on the quality of packaging for drugs evaluated during the previous year in the New Products section of our French edition (2010: issues 315 to 326). 

> Click here for the rules governing the Awards (in French)

Throughout the year, the editorial staff systematically examines the packaging of several hundred pharmaceutical products. This provides us with an opportunity to identify high-quality packaging and to detect dangerous packaging that is a potential source of confusion and errors, in order to inform our readers (see in a coming issue of Prescrire International).

Detailed analysis
Every aspect of the packaging is examined: the outer packaging (the box), the primary internal packaging (blister pack, bottle, syringe, sachet, etc.); devices provided for preparing and/or administering the doses; and of course, the legibility and quality of information provided in the package leaflet.

Annual Awards in total independence
At the end of each year, the Packaging Awards are granted following a review of the year’s standardised forms by Prescrire Packaging Working Group, in total independence and with no input from drug or packaging manufacturers.  

©Prescrire March 2011

"The 2010 Prescrire Awards"  Prescrire Int 2011; 20  (114): 79-82. (Pdf, free)