Medical Labels

Medical labels of all types, especially pharmaceutical labels and biomedical labels, need to be rugged, flexible, and capable of surviving a wide range of environmental conditions. Of the two, pharmaceutical labels have the less rigorous requirements: these are labels like those generally used for prescriptions, over-the-counter medications, vitamins, nutriceuticals, and some ophthalmic items and medical devices. As such, pharmaceutical labels can usually be printed on various paper stocks, although metallized stocks may be preferable for some medical devices.biomedical labels are less forgiving. These are the kinds of labels most often used in biomedical laboratories, where good labeling is an absolute priority for the maintenance of both quality control and specimen tracking. As such, biomedical labels can come in a variety of formats, allowing for everything from hand-written labeling to barcoding, but they have to have several things in common: they must resist chemical insult, they must be resistant to physical shock and mechanical abrasion, and they must remain on the sample until they´re deliberately removed. This requires the use of special adhesives that, ideally, shouldn´t stick to the latex gloves that laboratory personnel wear as a matter of course. All these items offer significant challenges to any manufacturer of biomedical labels.