Sunrays
Relevance
Packaging qualification is a critical element of pharmaceutical quality and patient safety, ensuring medicinal products remain protected throughout storage, handling, and distribution. As supply chains become more global and complex, life sciences organisations face growing pressure to accelerate time-to-market, control costs, and improve efficiency while maintaining regulatory compliance. Yet current qualification practices often involve significant duplication of effort, with pharmaceutical companies repeating activities already performed by qualified packaging suppliers, while valuable supplier-generated performance and transport data remains underutilised due to concerns around standardisation, traceability, and regulatory acceptance.
GOAL
Project Objectives
The aim of Project Sunrays was to provide timely and verified information for the pharma industry and air cargo stakeholders to support them in their planning and decision-making process.
Timeline
June - August
Preliminary Research & Industry Insights
July - September
October
Framework Development & Qualification Mapping
Industry Opinion Paper Publication
PROJECT
SUPPORT AND
COLLABORATION.
Steering Committee:
- Brussels Airport Company
- Changi Airport Group
- Edmonton International Airport
- Flexport
- Miami International Airport
- Neutral Air Partner
- Sats
- Turkish Airlines
- 4Advice, Change Horizon and Mediconed (external consultants)
Active engagement of vaccines manufacturers (Pharma.Aero members and non-members):
- Biontech
- GSK
- Johnson & Johnson
- MSD
- Pfizer
- Sanofi
