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Veterinary: a bottle opened with gloves, in the rain
A veterinary medicine meets the same requirements as a human one. But it is not used in a bathroom: it is opened in the barn or the pen, with gloved, hurried hands. The packaging has to allow for that ground.
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Multidose: staying sealed after dozens of openings
Closing a bottle once, on the filling line, is easy. Closing it again every evening for a month, with hurried hands, and still having no leak, is another matter. A multidose bottle's seal is won in the design of the neck and the cap.
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Extractables and leachables: what plastic might release into a medicine
A medicine bottle must add nothing to what it holds. To make sure, the industry asks two questions in turn: what can be pulled out of this plastic, and what is actually found in the product?
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Amber bottles: what they filter, and what they don't
The amber colour of a syrup bottle is not a matter of taste. It filters a precise part of the light, the part that degrades some active substances. But that is all it does, and it takes a measurement, not a colour, to tell whether it is enough.
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Eye dropper bottle: getting a repeatable drop
Eye drops are dosed by the drop. The drop still has to be the same every time. Its size does not depend on the medicine alone: it is largely decided in the plastic of the bottle and in the geometry of its tip.
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Argan oil: which bottle for a precious oil
Argan oil is one of Morocco's best-known products, in cooking as in cosmetics. It is rare, expensive and fragile. Its bottle is not a mere container: it is what keeps the oil as it was pressed.
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Syrup bottles: PET, the 28 mm neck finish and the closure
A syrup bottle has the hardest life in the pharmacy. It holds a liquid for months, is opened morning and evening, and sometimes gets knocked over. Three choices make it reliable: its material, its neck, and the cap that screws onto it.
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Vitamins and food supplements: choosing the container
A box of vitamins looks like a medicine: capsules, a white bottle, a cap. Yet in law it is a food. That double nature guides the choice of its packaging.
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Dosing cups: measuring a syrup without mistakes
A syrup has to be measured, and measuring often happens in the evening, in dim light, with a fidgeting child. The little cup sitting on the cap looks like a detail. Yet the dose actually taken depends on it.
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Essential oils and plastic: a compatibility to check
A few drops of essential oil are enough to scent a room. Sometimes they are also enough to soften a stopper or cloud a bottle. With these products, material is not chosen from a catalogue.
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Morocco's pharmaceutical industry: the packaging share
Local production of medicines is discussed in terms of molecules, plants and authorisations. Less is said about what holds them. Yet a medicine made in Morocco needs qualified bottles, caps and pill containers, and those choices go into its file.
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Extrusion or injection blow moulding: two ways to make a bottle
A plastic bottle is always inflated like a balloon inside a mould. What matters is what gets inflated: a plain tube of melt, or a blank whose neck is already finished. That choice decides how precise the neck is, and therefore how well the bottle seals.
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