The dispute between medical glass bottle and plastic bottle

There has been a long-standing dispute between the advantages and disadvantages of medical glass packaging and plastic packaging. After sorting out all kinds of relevant information published in various media, you will find that the voice of replacing glass packaging with plastic packaging is absolutely superior. The reality is the same. The share of glass packaging in medical packaging is decreasing year by year, and it is accelerating Plastic packaging is replaced. The seemingly simple medical packaging material replacement problem is not simple, why the cheap and functional medical glass infusion bottle is rejected? The root cause is driven by the economic interests of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. The dispute between plastic packaging and glass packaging is a struggle between strong and weak between pharmaceutical enterprises and glass packaging enterprises.

They suggested that the use of plastic infusion bottles (bags) should be restricted in the medical insurance and new rural medical drug procurement catalogue, the cost of drug packaging should be strictly controlled, and the premise of fair competition for enterprises producing glass infusion bottles should be created, and the glass bottle packaging with high quality and low price should be the first choice of government procurement. According to the survey, Hunan Province has a similar designation, which has played a great role in reducing the cost of medicine. In the normal clinical practice, the use of glass infusion packaging is advocated, and the drugs beyond the designated packaging cost are implemented at their own expense.