A blister pack is any of several types of pre-formed plastic packaging used for small consumer goods, foods, and for pharmaceuticals.
Tablets in a blister
A typical blister-packaged consumer good made by vacuum forming
Cold Form Foil blister pack
Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and for personal use.
UK Risperdal Tablets 2000 in a blister pack, which was itself packaged in a folding carton made of paperboard.
1914 magazine advertisement for cookware with instructions for home canning.
Packing folding cartons of salt.
Heroin bottle and carton, early 20th century.