Glass Vials Containing Hazardous Drugs Receive Extra Protection From Labels

VPP2 label covers the glass vial and offers protection from breakage.

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Hi, my name is William Wainwright from Iwata Label USA and I'm here to kind of introduce you to our products.

So we're a packaging and label, labeling company for the pharmaceutical industry. Based out of Japan, but we have offices here in Jersey City and also in Europe. Kind of, one of our main products is the VPP2 packaging. This is, the main application of this is to protect glass vials that contain hazardous drugs. So, a really big one is oncology medicine.

If the, if the, for example, the vial breaks, It's a huge loss of income and time for the healthcare workers because the room has to be sanitized and then obviously oncology medicine is quite expensive. So the main, the function of it is there's the glass vial, you put that into this plastic resin cup. A label is applied like this, and then the heat is blown onto certain areas of the packaging, and then it comes out like this, so it's nice and neat and all put together.

And when the, whoever's the healthcare worker's using it, they just pop it off, and, you know, they can pull out the injection. So, to kind of demonstrate, so this is, this is a vial that was used, had the packaging, and It's hard to tell that whether or not it's the outer shell or the actual vial that's cracked, but the vial is cracked, but you can, you can feel all, there's no, there's no leakage. You can't even feel that it's cracked on the inside. And that's pretty much the main function of the packaging and label.






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