Did you know that picking glass packaging for pharmaceuticals and medical products has many advantages over picking other popular materials such as plastic or aluminium? Although glass can sometimes be delicate to handle and prone to smashing easily when dropped, it does offer many beneficial properties that other materials do not. At the same time, the color of the glass bottle is also particular.
Brown glass bottles are widely used. When adding nonferrous metals to the ingredients of brown glass bottle, the color will not fade and fade, which can play a role in avoiding light, effectively resist sunlight, protect the contents from light decomposition, and extend the shelf life of light sensitive products. Like brown wine bottles and brown medicine bottles, they are widely used to contain articles that are easy to decompose when exposed to light.In summer, there is sufficient sunlight, which will speed up the oxidation of some drugs. The brown glass bottle can protect some drugs that are easily decomposed by light. The brown glass bottle can also cover the color of the product. Because some products look very ugly intuitively, the brown glass bottle can play a role of shielding, which will greatly improve the added value of the product.
Brown glass bottles have many advantages:
1. Glass bottles have good chemical stability, can be sterilized at high temperature and stored at low temperature, and have a certain mechanical strength, better convenience and transportation, making great progress in shatterproof. Bottles are easy to clean and disinfect, and have good sealing property. They are widely used in the packaging of various dosage forms in the pharmaceutical industry.
2. The brown glass bottle is light proof and can effectively resist the sunlight, thus extending the shelf life of the product.
3. The brown glass bottle is transparent, but it can cover the color of the product. Some products often have a good effect, but the color affects the appetite of the consumer. This way of packaging will not make people feel uncomfortable.
There are many kinds of medical glass bottles, which are made into various shapes according to the state and purpose of containing drugs; According to the light sensitivity requirements of drugs, they are usually made into transparent bottles or brown bottles; As the medicine bottle needs to contact with the medicine, it is generally necessary to select glass raw materials with good physical and chemical properties, such as acid resistance, alkali resistance, heat stability.
1.An ampoule, a small glass container for holding liquid medicine. The bottle is fired with high-quality thin glass tube, the top is sealed with open fire to isolate air, and the bottle body is sealed as a whole. The bottle neck is directly broken when the medicine in the bottle is taken, but the wrong operation may cause the bottle to be broken when it is opened, polluting the medicine, and the fracture is sharp and easy to hurt people.
Ampoule bottles are widely used to hold injection preparations and high-purity chemicals that must be isolated from the air, such as drugs, vaccines and serum for injection. Now they are also used to hold liquid cosmetics, called ampoules.
2.The penicillin bottle, which is a glass bottle commonly used for vaccine packaging, is sealed with a rubber stopper and sealed with an aluminum cap on the top layer. The bottleneck is thin. The difference between penicillin bottle and ampoule bottle is that the mouth of the bottle is sealed with a rubber stopper, and the overall wall of the bottle is relatively thick, so the bottle can be directly punctured and extracted with a needle during use, which is not easy to hurt people and cause secondary pollution due to exposure.
The penicillin bottle, named after the drug penicillin, is commonly used to contain injections, oral liquids, etc. In terms of production process, penicillin bottles are usually molded or controlled. Molded penicillin bottles generally use soda lime glass, which has weak physical and chemical stability, relatively simple production process and high output, and are mostly used to contain veterinary drugs. Borosilicate glass is generally used for controlled penicillin bottles, including low borosilicate glass and medium borosilicate glass. Due to its good physical and chemical properties, medium borosilicate glass is the preferred material for vaccine bottles.
Cassette bottle is commonly known as borosilicate glass sleeve for pen syringe. A cartridge bottle is similar to a syringe without a push rod, which is equivalent to a bottle without a bottom. The front of the bottle is equipped with a needle for injection protected by a rubber seal, or the bottle mouth is sealed with a rubber stopper and an aluminum cap; The tail is sealed with rubber piston. When in use, the cartridge injection stand is used for propulsion, and the liquid medicine does not contact any part of the syringe during use. It is often used in genetic engineering, bioengineering, insulin and other fields.
At the same time, the medicinal glass bottle has the following advantages
It’s Non-Reactive To Chemicals .Glass is a strong non-reactive material, meaning that it it will not leak any matter into the liquid within any glass container. This feature is of course especially important for pharmaceuticals, as medicines are comprised of delicate balances of elements to create the correct mixture that will treat the patient. If anything is leaked into this fine balance, then it is likely that the medicine would not be as effective. Some types of plastic packaging can react with the contents within them, so it’s best to take the advice of Jens heyman, Senior Vice-President of Europe & Asia Tubular Glass at Gerresheimer; “Drugs must be carefully examined at an early stage, ideally when clinical tests with the primary packaging begin. The pharmacist must ensure that all possible interactions between the contents and the packaging are recorded and assessed for risk.”
It Doesn’t Leak Or Seap ,Some types of plastic can leak Bisphenol A (BPA), which is a chemical found in many types of plastic, that is thought could cause possible ill health effects to the brain and blood pressure when ingested. Although this fear is yet to be conclusively proved by science, if you have any doubts about using plastic to package your pharmaceuticals, then you need to opt for glass packaging for pharmaceuticals.
It Can Be Easily Sterilised Sterilising glass is so easy because it can hold structure when exposed to high boiling temperatures, making it simple to kill off any harmful bacteria and germs. Glass can also be baked afterwards to dry it a controlled way and it won’t crack!
Post time: Oct-10-2022 Other Blog
