Drug Packaging and Combination Product Testing

Testing the performance of your drug packaging and completing the Design Verification testing of your combination product.

Having a thorough performance dossier on your drug packaging or your combination product is a regulatory essential. With West, you are able complete your performance assessment.

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Capabilities and Expertise

Collaboration with customers, combined with a thorough understanding of current regulations, enables our analytical services team to create and execute robust study designs ensuring you have the data you need to provide to the regulatory agencies. These studies cover syringes, cartridges, vials and all related components, devices and combination products such as pre-filled syringes, auto-injectors and on-body delivery systems. West not only tests products but we also develop and manufacture components, devices and combination products as well as contract manufacture devices for the pharmaceutical industry. Our team of scientists, engineers, product developers, and regulatory experts empowers our laboratory services clients from the pharmaceutical industry in gaining regulatory approval for new products that deliver medications to patients safely and effectively.

While ISO and guidance documents suggest useful test methods to assess the performance of components and devices, the final collection of tests to be included in a regulatory filing must be based on Design Inputs and risk assessments. By partnering with West, you are able to put together a holistic risk-based testing program.

Capabilities and Expertise

Analytical Techniques

Analytical techniques typically used to assess performance:
  • Force Testing with Instron and ZwickRoell Instruments
  • Torque Testing with an Instron Instrument
  • Gravimetric Analysis of Delivered Volume
  • Metrology (Camera, Micrometer and Dial Gauge Based Measurement)
  • Microscopy for Fragment Counting
  • Leak Induction under Vacuum/Pressure
  • Plunger Movement Under Vacuum (coming soon)
  • Visual Inspection
  • Residual Seal Force
Analytical Techniques
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Drug Packaging and Combination Product Testing
Needle Based Injection System Testing

Needle-Based Injection System Testing Services

Cartridge and needle-based injection systems are covered by the ISO 11608 series of standards.

Applicable Products:
  • Autoinjectors
  • On-Body Delivery Systems
  • Pen Injectors
  • Cartridges and Cartridge Components

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Prefilled Syringes Testing Services

Pre-Filled Syringe Testing Services

Ready-to-fill and pre-filled syringes are covered by the ISO 11040 Series of standards.

Applicable Products:
  • Staked Needle Glass and Polymer Syringes
  • Luer Connection Glass and Polymer Syringes

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Vial and Bottle Testing

Vial and Bottle Related Testing Services

There are various standards that apply to different aspects of vial and bottle based primary packaging.

Applicable Products:
  • Crimped Vials and Bottles

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Vial Adapter and other Transfer Device Testing Services

These devices can be treated as individual devices or as combination products, depending on how they are sold

Applicable Products:
  • Vials and Vial Adapters
  • Closed System Transfer Devices (CSTDs)
  • Administration Systems

Available Tests
USP 382 Testing

USP <382> Testing

Elastomeric Component Functional Suitability in Parenteral Product Packaging and Delivery Systems is a new USP chapter becoming effective in December 2025.

Applicable Products:
  • Vials, Bottles, Syringes and Cartridges

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Additional Expertise

Small Scale Container Fill-Finish for Early Compatibility Assessments

Laboratory filling of primary containers can be used to assess container-drug interactions.

Applicable Products:
  • Glass Vials, Syringes and Cartridges
  • Daikyo Crystal Zenith® COP Vials, Syringes and Cartridges
Services Available:
  • Custom Placebo and Viscosity Standards
  • Vial, Syringe and Cartridge Filling Services
  • Vial Capping Studies
  • Syringe and Cartridge Vent and Vacuum Semiautomated Plunger Placement

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