Product recalls can be a nightmare for any company, and unfortunately, they’re more common than you might think with labeling errors a major cause for recalls. According to Packaging Digest, packaged product recalls increased by 63% in 2022.

In the pharmaceutical sector, according to Schlafender Hase, common labeling errors include incorrect dosage information, missing critical warnings, and incorrect storage instructions. For instance, mistakes such as "1-2 times a day" being printed as "12 times a day" or critical dosage information missing can lead to Class 1 recalls, where there is an immediate risk of death or serious injury.

Additionally, labeling issues often arise from manual proofreading errors and the complexities involved in updating labels to meet changing regulatory requirements across different regions. Errors in packaging content are among the most frequent culprits of recalls and where there is human input, human error is always to be expected.

Without a clear process for managing packaging content and the power of automation, companies put themselves and their consumers at significant business and personal risk. This is an area where paying attention to every detail is crucial in order to keep consumers safe.

Are you confident that your packaging management process can prevent recalls and keep your products safe for consumption? Let's explore how digital solutions can streamline your packaging content management process, safeguarding your brand, products, and most importantly, your consumers.

How Digital, Cloud-Based Labeling and Artwork Software Can Prevent Product Recalls

Content encompasses every element on a label or package containing a consumer product. Content management involves creating, modifying, organizing, and delivering this information. For packaged products, this includes everything from ingredient lists and nutritional information to packaging design and labeling. Content must be created and approved swiftly and accurately, often involving multiple stakeholders, making the management process complex.

To prevent recalls effectively, a solution should address the following key areas:

1. Centralized Information Repository: A centralized platform ensures that all packaging content is stored in one location, reducing the risk of errors and making it easier to track changes and updates. This central repository should support version control and audit trails to maintain a clear history of all content modifications.

2. Automation: Automation is crucial for reducing manual errors and speeding up the content management process. Automated workflows can handle repetitive tasks such as generating artwork, applying changes, and searching for content.

3. Error-Free Collaboration: Effective label and artwork management requires seamless collaboration among various stakeholders, including marketing, legal, regulatory, and design teams. However, when many teams are involved in editing and re-working content, it can be easy for errors to arise. Look for software that prevents these errors by flagging up mistakes.

4. Regulatory Compliance: Keeping up with regulatory requirements, such as the EU MDR, new Windsor Framework regulations, or the latest EU CLP updates, is vital to prevent recalls. A good digital solution should have tools and functions that make it quick and easy to automatically update content to meet the latest regulations despite tight deadlines.

5. Comprehensive Reporting, Version Control Management, and Approval Processes: Insightful reporting and effective approval processes help to monitor the performance of your process and ensure that the correct labels are printed every time. Look for software that provides detailed reports, version control management, and highly reliable approval processes.

6. User-Friendly Interface: A user-friendly interface ensures that all team members can use the software effectively without extensive training. The interface should be intuitive, with clear navigation and easy access to all essential features.

7. Scalability: As your business grows, your content management needs will evolve. Choose a solution that can scale with your business, accommodating an increasing volume of content and more complex regulatory requirements.

Choose Veraciti™ to ensure your labels and artwork are right first time, every time

At Kallik, we understand the critical importance of product safety and recall prevention. Imagine being able to create, review, and approve content for labels and artwork with complete confidence that you are 100% compliant. With our advanced digital solution, Veraciti™, you can make this a reality, just as Integra LifeSciences did. Since implementation more than five years ago, Integra reports it has not had a single issue with compliance. “We are delighted with our 100% success rate that Kallik helps us to deliver,” Senior Marketing Operations Manager, David Dreibelbis, enthuses.

Veraciti has also enabled Teleflex to completely mitigate product recalls thanks to the centralized cloud-based system. End-users benefit from standardized labeling processes and powerful features such as a dedicated asset search engine, enhanced phrase and translation management and end-to-end approval and audit trails.

What to expect from Veraciti™

Innovative, automated tools and functions such as the ‘Where Used’ function, the Rules Engine and Automated Artwork Generation (AAG).

Industry leading artificial intelligence (AI) driven technology such as Veraciti’s Assisted Technology of Migration (AToM).

As a truly end-to-end platform, Veraciti™ minimizes the need for input from multiple teams and external companies, ensuring a more seamless, efficient and error-free process. This also provides detailed audit trails at every step, enhancing transparency and accountability throughout the entire workflow.

How Veraciti™ Helps Prevent Recalls and Saves Lives

By investing in Veraciti™, you not only protect your brand and products but also safeguard the lives of your consumers. Accurate and consistent packaging content ensures that consumers receive the correct information, preventing potentially life-threatening mistakes. In doing so, Veraciti™ plays a crucial role in saving lives every day.

Don’t let a recall damage your brand’s reputation and endanger the lives of your consumers. Get in touch with us today to learn more about how Veraciti™ can help prevent product recalls and contribute to saving lives.

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Why not speak to one of our labeling and artwork experts to learn more about how Veraciti™ can help your business to transform its product packaging process with the very best labeling and artwork management? Get in touch today at enquiries@kallik.com or call +44 (0) 1827 318100.
 

When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, enterprise organizations face a myriad of challenges when integrating new products into their portfolios. From streamlining product integration to ensuring regulatory compliance and managing complex audit processes, the task can seem daunting. However, with the right tools and strategies in place, organizations can navigate mergers with ease, ensuring a seamless transition and unlocking new opportunities for growth. Enter Veraciti, a trusted partner in label management solutions, dedicated to simplifying the complexities of mergers and acquisitions for enterprise organizations. That’s where our end-to-end enterprise labeling and artwork software, Veraciti, can help.

Streamlining Product Integration:

One of the biggest challenges in mergers and acquisitions is integrating new products into existing portfolios seamlessly. Veraciti offers a comprehensive suite of tools and features designed to streamline this process. From automated artwork generation to centralized label management, Veraciti enables organizations to bring 100 new products on board with ease, minimizing disruptions and maximizing efficiency.

Rapid Name Changes:

Veraciti makes it quick and easy to change company names, brand names and company ownership of brands,thanks to our Automated Artwork Generation (AAG) tool and label templates. Gone are the days of hiring a team to spend months manually changing labels and artwork if your company undergoes a re-brand or merger, instead you can execute name changes in as little as 10 seconds with Veraciti. AAG ensures accuracy by maintaining one single, company and/or brand name, approved address and logo, automatically updating hundreds of labels in minutes.

Streamlined Logo Management:

Veraciti simplifies logo management by vectorizing logos, regardless of their size variations. With only one copy of each asset, resizing logos becomes effortless without compromising quality. This centralized approach also makes logo management easier and more efficient.

Automated Inspection:

Veraciti significantly reduces the need for manual inspection by utilizing automation to increase accuracy. Unlike other platforms where each label must be opened individually for inspection, Veraciti allows for sample checks, saving time and resources while maintaining precision.

With Veraciti, companies can navigate all of the usual complexities that come with mergers and acquisitions with ease, ensuring swift and accurate updates across all products and labels.

Ensuring Regulatory Compliance:

With regulatory requirements becoming increasingly stringent, ensuring compliance across a diverse range of products is paramount. Veraciti's robust compliance management capabilities help organizations navigate regulatory complexities with confidence. By providing real-time insights into labeling requirements and facilitating bulk changes seamlessly, Veraciti ensures that organizations remain compliant with industry standards throughout the merger process.

Scalability Made Easy:

One of the key benefits of partnering with Veraciti is scalability. As organizations undergo mergers and acquisitions, the need for scalable solutions becomes more pronounced. Veraciti's cloud-based deployment ensures that organizations can scale their label management capabilities effortlessly, accommodating new products and expanding operations with ease.

Case Study: Aspen's Success Story:

A 20-year-old major surgical device manufacturer comprised of 18 acquisitions, recently turned to Veraciti to standardize label printing across all factories. During Veraciti's implementation, Aspen brought on two more companies, seamlessly integrating them into the original project with no time overrun. Thanks to Veraciti's cloud deployment, the enterprise was able to add new companies with ease, demonstrating the scalability and efficiency of Veraciti's solutions.

So there you have it - navigating mergers and acquisitions doesn't have to be a daunting task. With Veraciti's comprehensive suite of label management solutions, organizations can streamline product integration, ensure regulatory compliance, manage audit and approval processes, and scale their operations with ease. By partnering with Veraciti, enterprise organizations can navigate mergers with confidence, unlocking new opportunities for growth and success.

Want to know more about how Kallik can help you? Download our free guide on labeling and artwork trends in 2024 to get started on transforming your cosmetic labeling and artwork management. Speak to one of our labeling and artwork experts for more information by emailing enquiries@kallik.com, calling +44 1827 318100 or filling in the form here.

In today's fast-paced business landscape, the ability to adapt and evolve is not just a competitive advantage; it's a necessity. With consumer preferences shifting, regulatory requirements evolving, and market dynamics changing rapidly, organizations must be agile in responding to these challenges. Nowhere is this need for speed more evident than in the realm of label management, where updating thousands of product labels swiftly can make all the difference between staying ahead or falling behind.

Everyone’s favorite hot topic: Artificial intelligence

The traditional approach to label management, with its manual processes and cumbersome workflows, is no longer sufficient in meeting the demands of the modern business environment. Thankfully, the emergence of AI and automation has ushered in a new era of efficiency and productivity. Veraciti, a leading provider of label management solutions, has been at the forefront of this transformation, featuring automation and investing in AI to aid and streamline label and artwork management processes.

Kallik’s Assisted Tool of Migration (AToM), the first of its kind in the labeling and artwork industry, leverages the power of AI to streamline the entire label and data migration process, from a variety of content sources, reducing manual effort and potential for errors. It works by extracting content labels or artworks in any format and generating intelligent templates with regulatory and brand logic included as standard. Further to this, AToM is also incredibly intelligent when it comes to identifying aspects of your content that may lead to errors and issues further down the line.

Let’s talk automation: Automated Artwork Generation

Another of Veraciti's flagship offerings is its Automated Artwork Generation (AAG) function. AAG dynamically assembles the chosen pre-approved content. By using intelligent pre-approved templates to automatically generate the artwork or label, the need for human input is removed, reducing the risk of errors as well as rapidly decreasing project completion times. Labels or artworks are created within seconds rather than days or weeks. This revolutionary technology not only accelerates the label design process but also ensures consistency and accuracy across all product labels - which is a huge improvement compared to traditional methods.

Speed without compromising on compliance with the ‘Where Used’ function

But speed alone is not enough; organizations must also ensure compliance and consistency in their label management processes. The ‘Where Used’ function is a key feature in helping to maintain compliance while also increasing speed-to-market. It has the ability to identify specific components and recognize every artwork or label where they have been used previously. With ever-changing regulations, this makes the process of making bulk changes to icons, images and phrases seamless, both facilitating and accelerating the process of achieving regulatory compliance. Whether it's updating warnings to meet FDA labeling requirements or incorporating new branding elements, the 'Where Used' function ensures that every change is implemented efficiently and accurately.

Change 10,000 product labels in just 14 days rather than six months

In a world where every second counts, efficiency is paramount. One Kallik customer using Veraciti updated 10,000 product labels in 14 days gain a significant competitive advantage, allowing them to respond swiftly to market demands and stay ahead of the curve. With Veraciti's AI-powered solutions and innovative features like AAG and 'Where Used,' organizations can unlock new levels of efficiency and productivity, enabling them to thrive in today's fast-paced business environment.

Want to know more about how Kallik can help you? Whether you’re in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, medical device, chemical, or even the cosmetic industry, our experts are ready to help you transform your labeling and artwork management with the help of our innovative software, leading the way in the labeling and artwork software space. Get in touch today to see what we can do for you at enquiries@kallik.com or call +44 (0) 1827 318100.

As Brexit unfolded, the packaging and labelling industry experienced a seismic shift in regulations. Manufacturers and distributors scrambled to adapt to new requirements governing product packaging, labelling, and artwork. In this blog, we explore the ways Brexit has impacted the industry so far and look at how businesses are still adapting today. We also look at how you can prepare your business for future regulation changes to ensure you’re staying compliant and ahead of the curve.

Brexit's Impact on Packaging and labelling:

Brexit brought about significant changes in regulations governing product packaging and labelling in the UK. With the UK's departure from the EU, businesses faced a slew of challenges and uncertainty, including navigating customs checks, tariffs, and country-of-origin labelling requirements.

Even now, there is uncertainty surrounding the UKCA and the latest Windsor Framework Regulations which will see the introduction of a ‘UK Only’ label for pharmaceuticals but not medical devices that contain pharmaceutical products like an inhaler. Moreover, the need to comply with UK-specific regulations alongside existing EU standards added complexity to an already intricate regulatory landscape.

Changes in Regulation: With the UK leaving the EU, there have been changes in regulations governing product packaging and labelling. UK-specific regulations now apply, and businesses must ensure compliance with both UK and EU regulations if they are trading in both markets.

Customs and Tariffs: Brexit has introduced customs checks and tariffs for goods moving between the UK and the EU. This has implications for product packaging as businesses may need to include additional information for customs purposes.

Country of Origin labelling: Products manufactured in the UK now require clear labelling to indicate their country of origin. This is important for both domestic and international trade, as it impacts tariffs and trade agreements.

Product Standards and Certification: UK businesses exporting to the EU must comply with EU product standards and certification requirements. This may necessitate changes to packaging and labelling to ensure that products meet EU regulations.

Changes in Import/Export Documentation: Brexit has introduced new documentation requirements for importing and exporting goods between the UK and the EU. This includes changes to paperwork such as customs declarations, which may need to be reflected on product packaging.

Health and Safety Regulations: The UK has the authority to set its own health and safety regulations post-Brexit. This may result in changes to labelling requirements to ensure compliance with UK-specific regulations.

Language Requirements: Products sold in the UK may no longer be required to have labelling in multiple languages as mandated by EU regulations. However, businesses exporting to the EU will still need to comply with EU language requirements.

Packaging Waste Regulations: The UK has its own packaging waste regulations separate from those of the EU. Businesses may need to adjust packaging designs to comply with UK-specific waste management regulations.

Product Marking: The UK has introduced a new UKCA (UK Conformity Assessed) marking to replace the CE marking for certain products sold in Great Britain. This change may require updates to product packaging and labelling to reflect the new marking.

Data Protection and Privacy: Changes in data protection laws post-Brexit may require adjustments to packaging and labelling to ensure compliance with UK data protection regulations, especially regarding the handling of personal data.

These changes are only some of the key areas where Brexit has impacted the labelling, and artwork of products sold and manufactured in the UK and there are still new regulations emerging even now in 2024. For example, the new Windsor Framework Regulations on the requirement to mark products as ‘UK Only’ will commence in January 2025. As a result, it is crucial for businesses operating in the UK market to stay informed about evolving regulations and to be prepared for further changes. If there is one thing that Brexit and its aftereffects has taught us, it’s to be prepared with a system that can handle mass changes with ease.

Adapting to Regulatory Changes with Veraciti™:

Now let’s talk about how to prepare your business for any future regulatory changes that may be on the horizon and could cost your organization a lot of time and money.

Bob Tilling, Kallik’s VP of Global Sales, explains how Veraciti™ can take the stress out of mass labelling and artwork changes. “Amidst the chaos, Veraciti™ has proven to be a reliable partner for businesses seeking to navigate the evolving regulatory environment post-Brexit. Leveraging its cutting-edge technology and expertise, Veraciti™ offers a comprehensive solution to ensure compliance and mitigate risks associated with regulatory changes.”

“Through features like 'Where Used' and Automated Artwork Generation, Veraciti™ empowers companies to make mass changes efficiently while ensuring compliance and accuracy. Additionally, Veraciti™'s label templates and Cascade feature significantly reduce errors and streamline the approval process, ultimately enhancing speed-to-market and reducing costs. With real-time updates, seamless integration supported by AI and 24/7 support from our experts on the Kallik Service Desk, you can navigate regulation changes with complete confidence thanks to Veraciti™.” Bob explains.

Brexit has undoubtedly reshaped the regulatory landscape for the packaging and labelling industry in the UK. However, with the right partner by their side, businesses can navigate these changes with confidence and ease. Veraciti™'s adaptable solutions empower businesses to stay compliant, meet deadlines, and thrive in a post-Brexit world.

Are you struggling to navigate the complexities of post-Brexit regulations? Download our FREE guide on navigating the new Windsor Framework regulations to stay ahead of the curve. Speak to one of our labelling and artwork experts to learn more about how Veraciti™ can help your business thrive in a rapidly changing regulatory environment. Get in touch today at enquiries@kallik.com or call +44 (0) 1827 318100.
 

In the wake of Brexit, the regulations on medicinal products are undergoing significant changes. It is crucial for companies involved in the manufacturing and distribution of these products to the UK to keep well-informed in order to ensure compliance and avoid potentially expensive recalls and penalties.
 

Our labeling and artwork expert, Bob Tilling, VP of Global Sales here at Kallik, says, “When it comes to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, compliance can be life or death for patients using the products. And with regulations changing constantly at the moment, it’s important to be using a labeling and artwork management system that’s futureproof and can easily make mass changes with minimal stress and hassle.”
 

The recent announcement of the new labeling and packaging requirements under the Windsor Framework Agreement means organizations will now have to make mass changes to their product packaging in order to stay compliant. To help you understand these regulations and their implications, we've compiled a comprehensive guide. Here's a brief overview of what to expect.

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Part 1 - Understanding the New Windsor Framework Regulations, Who They’ll Affect, and What Steps to Take:

The Windsor Framework, born out of post-Brexit negotiations between the UK and EU, mandates labeling changes for goods intended for sale in Northern Ireland and Great Britain. Notably, from January 1, 2025, all UK medicinal products must bear a 'UK Only' label, impacting various stakeholders, including pharmaceutical companies and retailers. Failure to comply could lead to goods being halted at the border, causing significant delays and potential financial penalties.

Part 2 - How End-to-End Labeling and Artwork Management Software Can Help:

In the face of these regulatory changes, leveraging modern technology becomes imperative. Enter Veraciti™, an innovative software solution offered by Kallik, designed to streamline labeling and artwork management processes. Through features like 'Where Used' and Automated Artwork Generation, Veraciti™ empowers companies to make mass changes efficiently while ensuring compliance and accuracy. Additionally, Veraciti™'s label templates and Cascade feature significantly reduce errors and streamline the approval process, ultimately enhancing speed-to-market and reducing costs.
 

Read Our Guide to Get Ahead Now

With the deadline for compliance looming, proactive action is essential. By understanding the Windsor Framework Regulations and leveraging tools like Veraciti™, companies can navigate these changes with confidence. Ensuring compliance not only mitigates risks but also safeguards consumer safety and maintains market competitiveness. Don't wait until it's too late. Take steps now to adapt and thrive in this evolving regulatory landscape.
 

Stay Informed, Stay Compliant, And Stay Ahead With Kallik

To delve deeper into these topics and explore how Veraciti™ can revolutionize your labeling and artwork processes, download our full guide for FREE today here. For further inquiries or assistance, contact us at enquiries@kallik.com or call +44 (0) 1827 318100.