What is a medicinal plastic bottle?

The medicinal plastic bottle is a blow molded plastic bottle used for packaging plastic containers for medicines, liquids, solvents and chemical reagents.

The medicinal plastic bottle is generally made of PE, PP, PET, etc. It has the advantages of not easy to break, good sealing performance, moisture proof, sanitation, and meets the special requirements of pharmaceutical packaging. It can be directly used for pharmaceutical packaging without cleaning or drying. An excellent pharmaceutical packaging container widely used for packaging oral solid medicines (such as tablets, capsules, granules, etc.) and oral liquid medicines (such as syrups, water repellents, etc.), and other plastic hollow packaging containers. There are many special places compared to medicinal plastic bottles.

The characteristics of medicinal plastic bottles are as follows:

1. Capacity: Due to the particularity of pharmaceutical packaging and medication, it ranges from a few milliliters to about 1000 milliliters. The shape is mostly round, and it has a square shape and an elliptical shape.

2. In order to ensure that the drug is not damp and does not deteriorate during the validity period, the medicinal plastic bottle should have good sealing and barrier properties, and can prevent the influence of light, heat, water vapor and oxygen on the drug.

3. The inner wall of the bottle is in direct contact with the drug. The bottle material must meet the requirements of the drug packaging to ensure the safety of the drug.

4. Oral solid and liquid medicinal plastic bottles are a type of packaging material. It can be used for pharmaceutical packaging without cleaning and sterilization. Therefore, there are high requirements for microbial limits, and the production environment and production process should comply with relevant regulations.

5. The shape, size and structure of medicinal plastic bottles should be adapted to the requirements of various types of filling machines for pharmaceutical companies, and meet the requirements of high-speed automatic filling machines. The production technology of medicinal plastic bottles before 2002 was not standardized enough. In addition to the publication of the pharmaceutical industry standard for solid medicinal polyolefin plastic bottles in 1991, the pharmaceutical manufacturers of medicinal plastic bottles mostly use their own corporate standards or local standards for production.