Sustainability is increasingly important and, considering the pharmaceutical industry’s use of solvents, water and environmentally taxing reagents, producers need to seek out more sustainable processes such as blow-fill-seal, argues Chuck Reed of Weiler Engineering.
Along with sterility assurance, process validation and regulatory compliance, sustainability is becoming a higher-profile component in pharmaceutical processing, and is considered a critical factor in the design of healthcare equipment, products and packaging. The concept of sustainability has been a topic of interest for many years, and has been more formally discussed and considered since the late 1980s. Current international focus has led to the development of regulatory guidance in many of the world’s markets.
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