Heat Treat Wooden Pallets to Avoid Taint of TBP, Drug Makers Told
This article was originally published in The Gold Sheet
Executive Summary
Pharmaceutical manufacturers should use only heat-treated wooden pallets to ensure that they don’t have TBP-taints that can cause musty and moldy odors in plastic medicine bottles. There have been eight drug recall incidents since 2009 for smells emanating from TBP.
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