Greenhouse Emissions and Environmental
Footprint Reduced Significantly By Innovative Medical
Device
STAMFORD, Conn., July 29,
2024 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: A new peer reviewed study to be released
July 30, 2024, comparing the
environmental footprint of an innovative prefilled injection device
to widely used traditional glass syringe options. This
groundbreaking study shows that greenhouse gas emissions can be
reduced significantly by soon to be available blow-fill-seal (BFS)
manufactured prefilled injectors.
WHO: The study's authors are Robert Litan, PhD, former Director of Economic
Studies at The Brookings Institution and Matthew Eckelman, PhD, Adjunct Associate
Professor at the Yale School of Public
Health, with expertise in emissions modeling. The authors
were supported by engineers and scientists from Kymanox, a global
professional services company exclusively serving life
sciences.
WHY: The year-long study finds a substantial difference
favoring the Prefilled Injector developed by ApiJect Systems across
all categories of resource use and environmental impact. In
quantifying an environmental footprint, the study identified and
measured each step in the production and distribution processes of
the different types of injection devices.
Compared to the Prefilled ApiJect Injector result of 38 g
CO2-eq per dose:
- Single-Dose Glass Vial impacts are approximately 125% higher
per dose;
- Luer-type Prefilled Syringes are approximately 100% higher per
dose;
- Multi-Dose Vial and Staked-type
Prefilled Syringes are 65-75% higher per dose.
Measuring water use for manufacturing, cleaning and
sterilization, the study also found that a typical single-dose
glass vial requires over 100 times more water than the Prefilled
ApiJect Injector.
WHEN: Press Release and Report available July 30, 2024 at 8:45 am
ET. For live link, visit apiject.com.
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SOURCE ApiJect Systems Corp.