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Pre-Filled Syringes
Click Here To Download:•Product Sheet: Pre-Filled Syringes
Pre-filled syringes (PFS) have a lot of advantages over conventional containers for drugs for injection and enjoy excellent market acceptance. Sales of PFS have been growing at rates in the double digits for the last few years, partly driven by the introduction of increasing numbers of biotech drugs. This is leading to a growth in importance of the parenteral route of drug application. Pre-filled syringes cut out the transfer of the drug from the ampoule or vial to the syringe – this saves some work for the person applying the drug, and it also saves (waste) material. A bigger saving results when the drug itself is expensive (e.g. proteins): Conventional containers have to be overfilled to allow for losses in the transfer to the syringe, whereas PFS deliver the correct dose reliably with significantly less overfill. Taken together, these savings can more than offset the higher production costs of PFS compared to other containers.
To be at the forefront of these developments, Fresenius Kabi is cooperating with established partners to set up a syringe filling line at its plant in Graz, Austria. The facility is being laid out to aseptically process plastic and glass syringes from 0.1 to 50 ml using state-of-the-art isolator technology.
Click Here To Download:•Product Sheet: Pre-Filled Syringes
