Importance of PET Quality Testing In Pharmaceutical Industry

Importance of PET Quality Testing In Pharmaceutical Industry

Packaging is very important part in today’s pharmaceuticals market. Plastic bottles utilized for pharma packaging are made of a particular plastic, called as polyethylene terephthalate or PET - a strong, clear and lightweight plastic that belongs to the polyester family. Therefore, PET quality testing has a great relevance in the pharma industry. As the quality of the products greatly depends on the quality and integrity of the PET bottles and hence the manufacturers have to make sure that they are providing the best quality of PET products to their clients so that they could ensure better protection of products until they are delivered to the customers.

Industry concern
PET is the most popular types of plastics that have importance in the past few decades and is been greatly used in the healthcare industry because of its safety and quality standards. It is more often used for packaging of liquid oral drug formulations and is the most used and internationally accepted form of plastic used in packaging for pediatric and geriatric drugs.

Adheres to rigid quality and safety standards, PET has its wide usage in various applications and is checked for being non-toxic, non-carcinogenic, and biocompatible and in no way injurious to the biological environment. The safety of PET packaging is set further by knowing its manufacturing process. Important tests which must be performed at manufacturing level are vacuum leak test, top load testing, wall thickness measurement, etc.

Vacuum leak testing
Vacuum Leak testing is an important testing process to ensure that the PET bottle’s seal is leak proof and does not get contaminated by external factors and react with the pharmaceutical chemicals.
Vacuum leak tester offered by Pacorr’s complies with international standard testing methods. The main motive to conduct the test is to assure that the seal of components related to the vacuum sources is not affected.

In the test, the sample bottle is overturned and kept in the testing chamber. The negative pressure and the test time is fixed as per the requirement and start the test. After the initiation of the test, even minute leakage can be tested from the blotting paper which is kept on the base.

Key specifications:

• The device is equipped with the Desiccators having size of the diameter of desiccators to be 150mm, 300mm.
• The testing equipment provides highly reliable and accurate results.
• It adheres to domestic and international standard test methods. It is supplied with calibration certificated approved from NABL approved labs.
• It offers the pressure with minimum or least count of 10mm of Hg.
• The range of vacuum is 0-600 mm/Hg.

With the help of the vacuum leak tester, the manufacturers of the PET containers can ensure that the quality of the products is top notch and can survive the harsh conditions they face during transportation and storage.

To learn more about the Pacorr’s Vacuum leak tester and get the best price quotes, please contact our technical support team.