In recent years, drug and food safety incidents have occurred from time to time. Among them, plastic packaging also accounts for a large influencing factor. The development of plastic packaging and other forms of packaging technology has greatly promoted the progress of the pharmaceutical and food industries, but it has also brought great safety risks to it.

Plastic packaging has now been widely used in medicine, health products, food, beverages, and other industries and product packaging supporting industries, and it is an indispensable industry.

In fact, there is a complete set of EU and national regulations for plastics used in pharmaceutical and food packaging, including EU regulations that have strict requirements on plastic materials in contact with food and very detailed REACH regulations. Moreover, the European Food Safety Agency and the British Food Standards Agency will monitor this.

Whether it is used for packaging medical care or food packaging materials, plastics are usually used by public organizations as materials for this purpose. Experts pointed out that formal plastic packaging is not only safe, but also makes a significant contribution to public health.

At present, the plastic packaging market is gradually on the right track, and the prospects for development are promising. As a larger part of the plastic application field, its development speed is growing day by day, and has surpassed other packaging materials such as cardboard and metal. But it is undeniable that its safety supervision is also more important.

Therefore, the country should strengthen the standardization of the safety and protective design of drug and food packaging, and at the same time strengthen the technical supervision of packaging material manufacturers. Since the current national standards have not kept up with the development of packaging, the country should increase investment in scientific research and development. Work out feasible drug and food packaging standards and inspection methods as soon as possible.