Gerresheimer unveils latest ophthalmology and rhinology services at Pharmapack

Glass and plastic specialist Gerresheimer has unveiled its latest ophthalmology and rhinology services at this year’s Pharmapack. The company teamed up with certified partners to add surface finishing of plastic dropper bottles to its irradiation services.

Niels Düring, global executive vice president, plastic packaging, said: “We want to make life easier for our customers when it comes to procuring their dropper bottles and, by treating our products with gamma radiation, we are adding in an important work step before filling. To help us in this, we are relying on selected, recognised, and certified partners.”

Gerresheimer is assuming responsibility for handling this work step from start to finish, including transport to the irradiation company, monitoring and inspecting its work, and delivering to the location specified by the customer. The inspection processes also involve physically and chemically testing the product characteristics after irradiation, while the company regulates the validation and revalidation of the entire process.

Gerresheimer’s range of ophthalmology and rhinology products encompasses bottles and dropper inserts made from low-density polyethylene (LDPE) with pump systems to match. As a specialist in plastic packaging for the pharmaceutical industry, Gerresheimer offers packaging solutions for solid, liquid, and opthalmological products. All of the company’s primary packaging for the pharmaceutical industry is produced in ISO class 7 and class 8 cleanrooms at its plants.

The population of viable microorganisms on the surface of a product and/or packaging is called the bioburden. The bioburden is determined in accordance with ISO 11737. Raw materials, components, packaging, and medical products are all investigated in order to gather information about the germ composition and level of germ contamination before treatment.