Aerosol packaging for sterile and medical products

Published: 14-May-2015

The preferred format for many sterile alcohol products is sprays. Magnus Hedman, Aurena Laboratories, outlines some additional benefits of using Bag-on-Valve aerosols

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Sterile alcohol products in water for injection (WFI) are often available in spray presentations. Most common are different types of trigger sprays. However, double-bagged sterile disinfection sprays with isopropanol alcohol or ethanol are now available in innovative ‘Bag-on-Valve’ (BOV) packaging.

Using this packaging format, sterile alcohol products in WFI can be sprayed straight from the aerosol from any angle, in any direction, and they evaporate quickly and completely. Double-bagging and gamma irradiation also ensure sterility for easy administration in critical areas. BOV aerosol sprays offer continuous dispensing of their content and can be used from any angle without losing pace or force in the spray. The content can be sprayed smoothly and evenly, giving the user perfect control over the administration of the product, as opposed to pump or trigger sprays, which are more cumbersome to handle and offer a lower degree of control. The degree of emptying is also very high, close to 100% for many liquid products.

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