Sterility
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What paragraph (c) requires
Containers and closures shall be clean and, where indicated by the nature of the drug, sterilized and processed to remove pyrogenic properties, and such depyrogenation processes shall be validated.
Three requirements in one sentence
Clean, always. Sterilized, where the nature of the drug indicates it. Depyrogenated, likewise, and with the process validated.
Our answer to the first is reasonable
These are new containers supplied in cases, and clean is the ordinary condition of a new molded or formed container.
Our answer to the second is nothing
Checked catalog-wide: no container or closure in this catalog is supplied sterile. Not on this shelf and not anywhere.
And our answer to the third is nothing
No depyrogenation, no pyrogen data, and no validated process of any kind on our side.
Which is a hard stop rather than a limitation
If the nature of the preparation indicates a sterile container, this catalog is not where it comes from. There is no workaround on our shelf.
Sterilizing in house is a separate undertaking
With its own validation requirement under the same paragraph, and nothing about our containers is qualified for it. We publish no autoclave tolerance.
Temperature range is published and is not that
410 of 486 rows carry one, and a storage and use temperature range is not a statement about autoclave or dry heat cycles.
So read (c) as the gate for this catalog
Non-sterile preparations, and the jars and bottles here are a reasonable starting point. Sterile preparations, and they are not.
Clean is also a shipping question
A container is clean when it leaves the molder and it travels in a case through a warehouse. Whether it arrives clean enough is something a compounder inspects rather than something a catalog certifies.
And case pack matters for that reason
Case pack is published on 482 of the 486 rows here. A case opened once and used down is handled less than a case opened and left standing.
Stated plainly because the alternative is dangerous
A compounder who assumes a packaging supplier has handled sterility has assumed something that is not true of us.