A strategy for reducing particulate contamination on opening glass ampoules and development of evaluation methods for its application

Drug Development and Industrial Pharmacy

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1394-1401

  Lee, Kyeong Ryoon ^a   Chae, Yoon Jee ^a   Cho, Sung Eel ^b   Chung, Suk Jae ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b KT and G Central Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Ampoule; contamination; glass; inductively coupled plasmaatomic emission spectrometer (ICP AES); scanning electron micrograph energy dispersive X ray spectrometer (SEM EDS)

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

AMPOULE; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VACUUM EXTRACTOR; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG PACKAGING; GLASS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PARTICLE SIZE; PHARMACEUTICAL SOLUTIONS; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC;

EID: 80955132944     PISSN: 03639045     EISSN: 15205762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03639045.2011.580349     Document Type: Article

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