Package and Container Testing

Package and Container Testing
Product Description

SGS is an industry leader in Package and Container Testing (USP, EP, JP, BP), providing full packaging testing for the drug industry. The safety and efficacy of any pharmaceutical product is inextricably linked to its packaging. Containers or closures that do not meet the physical, chemical, or biological specifications of the major compendia will compromise the quality of the drug product.

Tests Include Materials Used for the Manufacture of Containers
- Identification
- Limit tests
- Impurities
- Assays  

Container Testing (Glass, Plastics, Rubber Closure…)
- Classification
- Identification
- Limit tests
- Biological tests
- Heavy metals
- Physicochemical tests
- Water vapor permeation
- Extractable studies
- Others  

Container / Content Interaction

- 25°C / 40% r.h.
- 23°C / 75% r.h.
- Leachables
- Extractables studies
- Migration studies
- Others

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SGS North America Inc.

  • US
  • 2015
    On CPHI since
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  • US
  • 2015
    On CPHI since
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