UNITHER PHARMACEUTICALS taken their medication? Unlike a blister ambient air, inert or living particles, is not the case, formulators will need of tablets where you can control the oxygen, and other possible degradants the help of smaller amounts which will intake with an empty cell, a bottled oral to be captured in the bottle which is be enough to avoid microbial growth liquid is nearly impossible to know if a now subject to deterioration. On the in the stick-pack after manufacturing, single dose has been administered . How contrary, liquid stick-packs are not in but will not be necessary to prevent can we be sure that the appropriate contact with air until administration external contamination since the dose amounts of doses have been adminis- to the patient therefore, the medication is open extemporaneously and admi- tered? The answer to this question is is more stable over time and retains its nistered at one time. There will be no liquid stick packs. After the drug is organoleptic properties much better. need to prevent back or prolonged taken, the empty packaging is proof contamination. that the dose has been administered. Absence or reduction This proof can be of great value for an of preservatives Microbiological elderly person who has some memory cleanliness problems, or a stressed mother who The fact that the oral liquid will be does not remember the stage of her packaged in a clean environment The content of the stick-pack remains child’s treatment. (not sterile) in an individual package, clean from a microbiological point of allows manufactures to not to use or view until use, unlike the bottle where Product Preservation reduce the amount of preservatives. the cleaning of the dosing system is not Indeed, if the formula «self-preserves» always performed properly. In some The traditional bottle, which is opened in its closed packaging, there may be cases patients drink their syrup direc- and closed several times, allows for no need for preservatives at all. If this tly at the bottle resulting in potential 92 The Pharmaceutical Post 01 / Janvier - 2020