Recently we purchased a big lot of PVC bottle IV fluids manufactured by a Pharma major, labelled as sterilised at 121 degrees. On inspection at our facility against standard white and black background whole lot had large fungal elements were floating in it. he Distributor agreed to replace, on asking him to send the feedback to company he said company never listens. We decided to get new lot bottles resterilised in our setup, as we used to do long back to i.v.
fluid glass bottles. The sterilisation department said this bottle cannot withstand 121 degrees for even one minute what to say about standard 15 minutes. Anyway I persisted and decided to get it done at a lower temp for testing purpose in my presence, We raised temperature to 110 degrees for 5 minutes and after opening the sterilisation cover cloth, bottle was found to be totally damaged. Now the question arises are pvc iv fluid…
