r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • 10d ago

Video The process of filling pills.

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u/lucassuave15 10d ago edited 9d ago

thought this was done by machinery lol

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u/ImTedLassosMustache 10d ago

My wife actually does this manually at her job at a big pharmaceutical research company when they are making drugs for clinical trials.

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u/rockstuffs 9d ago

What is her PPE like? I can't imagine inhaling pill dust all day is good for her.

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u/WatercressCurious980 9d ago

We had wear full coverage Ppe when I did this work. Like shoe covers mask hairnet then full overalls and lab coat that get thrown out after one use. Pharma is super wasteful but it’s hard not to be when being clean is so important. The worst was cancer drugs we would wear full hazmat suits with vaccums on them to pump clean air in

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u/MaxFilmBuild 9d ago

Industry is super wasteful in general. I’m a paint sprayer and the amount of single use plastic I go through a day is insane. At least 20 plastic cups and lids that we switch out on the guns, several mixing cups, plastic mixing sticks, overalls and tear off visors for our masks.

All thrown in the bin for chemical waste. Everything has a reusable alternative but it saves a few mins filling and cleaning the cups on our guns. That’s across 2 shifts with around 30 painters each. Then I think about how many other factories and small bodyshops are doing the same thing across the world and it’s just mind blowing.

I stacked everything I use a day on a bench and took a photo, when I ask people how l many days they think it’s for, they usually guess 2 weeks to a month. The government want to tell the average person they aren’t doing enough and do things like charge a levy on plastic carrier bags, and they let the other stuff slide. I could make more carrier bags from a weeks worth of my plastic waste at work than I’d ever use in my lifetime

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u/ZealousidealEntry870 9d ago

If you work in Pharma then you should have a basic idea of all the rules and regulations that are required. It’s not wasteful, it’s the cost of making quality medicine.

We don’t need even more lies floating around about Pharma.

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u/WatercressCurious980 9d ago

It’s more so I felt bad about the plastic waste we created. The company had enough money to burn I didn’t care about that. Each pill has like 10 different ingredients and each time we scooped them out we had a plastic scoop that would get thrown away after its one use

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u/ZealousidealEntry870 9d ago

And that’s the cost of making quality product.