Parenterals can be complex to administer but Italian company Haemopharm Healthcare has developed an easy-to-use safety closure for needle-free parenteral vials that won Gold in the CPhI Pharma Innovation Awards. Haemopharm Healthcare is an Italian company that has been manufacturing flexible bags, parenteral delivery systems and medical devices since the 1970s. It also has specific expertise in the field of products for critical care, the life sciences, speciality healthcare and drug administration.
In addition to its manufacturing activities, Haemopharm has been investing in the research and development of new systems and solutions for drug delivery, many of which have been patented by the company.
Its award-winning needleless injection vial (NIV), for example, is a safety closure for parenteral drug vials and is the first needle-free system of its kind connecting a vial and a syringe without any intermediate components.
It is a closure for glass vials for injectable drugs or nutritional active principles, which are mostly sold as lyophilised or freeze-dried drugs, and which require reconstitution, mixing or transfer before administration to the patient. The closure has a hermetic seal, using a needle-free site on the vial seal that is perforable with a needle-free syringe, and which automatically recloses when the syringe is removed.
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