As you may be aware, there are two parts to the packaging design, a colour and an icon. 

The icons represent the different BNF (British National Formulary) categories that the product fall under, such as cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and we even have an icon for Specials.  This icon appears on the front of the carton (where there is one) and the label.

When it comes to colours, there are only a limited number of colours that we can use.  All the packaging must run on our bottling and labelling line, which has what is know as a “Pharmacode Reader”.  This reads a sort of bar code which is made up of the inks used on the packaging to read to ensure that the right labelling is going onto the right product.  The Pharmacode Reader can only read strong colours, so this limits the palette of colours that we can call on.

So, with over 100 products, we have had to use the same colour more than once, but you will never find the same colour and the same icon and two products.  So you need to look at both the colour and icon.  We have also ensured that products that may sit next to each other alphabetically (by generic name) have distinctly different colours.

The packaging design is there to help you, but can never replace your need to read the label and make sure that you have the correct product in your hand.

Here at Rosemont we never crush tablets and suspend the powder, or manipulate a tablet or capsule in any way.  We make all of our specials from quality control tested raw materials to a validated method of manufacture and tested to validated quality control methodology.

It takes us 9 to 12 month to develop a formulation for a special.  We set up stability testing to ICH (International Conference on Harmonization) standards and customers know that if we say it has a 12 month shelf life then it is stable for that length of time.

Ninety four percent of our manufacturing output is licensed products and all our specials are made to the same standards and testing.  So customers can always rely on the high quality of our specials.

We provide a Certificate of Analysis (not just a Certificate of Conformity), so customers know that the end product has been fully tested to ensure the product is safe to release.

We build in quality at every stage of the process so that’s why our customers can rely on our specials with complete confidence.