COVID-19 vaccines: how important is the vial?
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In this article we discuss how the problems associated with glass vial packaging may disrupt COVID-19 vaccine distribution and explore some of the latest innovations to overcome it.
The glass vials into which vaccines and most other biologic drugs are packaged have changed very little in the past 100 years. Traditional borosilicate glass vials have several safety concerns associated with them, from the possibility of breakages to their potential to delaminate. To find out how these issues affect pharma and their possible impact on COVID-19 vaccine distribution,
European Pharmaceutical Review’s Hannah Balfour spoke with Lawrence Ganti, Chief Business Officer of SiO2, an innovative materials science company who has developed hybrid vials for biologics.