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John Bitner
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Director, Packaging Development
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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John Bitner has 20 years experience in the design, development, and commercialization of innovative ...
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An inclusionary approach to discovery

Exclusionary package observations in the marketplace and how they got there will be explored. What are the consequences of excluding the largest and fastest growing segment of the population? The American demographic is in an evolution where the life span has been increased by 30 years over the last century. We are in a microwave society mandating convenience and immediate gratification. The need is for developmental transparency from concept to consumer. No longer can personal agendas, proprietary principles, and patents survive as priorities in the manufacturing arena. These are the dramatic dampening effects that thwart innovation. The risk of maintaing conventional tradition is mighty versus the option of riding the renewed wave of scientific advancement now upon us.

 
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