Glass is a required and preferred material for these applications because of its desirable physical and chemical properties:

• Chemically and physically unaffected by sterilization.
• Inert and non-reactive with most drugs, bodily fluids, gases, etc.
• Safe for direct and indirect human contact.
• Dimensionally stable and able to be precision manufactured.

In addition to Richland’s normal quality procedures that include statistical process and quality controls, Richland offers the following quality related features for medical applications:

• Flow testing capabilities.
• State-of-the-art manufacturing vision inspection systems.
• Drug Master File.
• Environmentally controlled clear room inspection and packaging.
• cGMP.