Eye care moving toward multidose preservative-free bottles for medications, tears

There has been a trend over the past few years to move toward multidose preservative-free, or MDPF, bottles for prescription medications and artificial tears. The reasons for using an MDPF bottle are numerous:
The technological challenges in producing such a bottle, however, have been daunting. For years, designers have attempted to make MDPF bottles that are both contamination-proof and cost-effective to produce, but they have often met with failure. Some designs are indeed contamination-proof but cost a great deal to manufacture, even on a massive scale; these bottles have a (Read more...)

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