Residual Oxygen in Nitrogen Purged Pharmaceutical Packaging
By Butterworth Laboratories
The number of pharmaceutical products that are packaged using Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) procedures has increased significantly in recent years, with most of these processes focussed on the removal of oxygen from packaging systems to reduce oxidative degradation of the product and increase shelf life.
In this whitepaper, consultant chemist Frank Judge from the Chromatography Department of Butterworth Laboratories outlines MAP procedures in the pharmaceutical industry and explains how the ratio calibration procedure can be used for enhanced accuracy and ease of determination of residual oxygen in nitrogen purged packaging.