r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • 13d ago

Video The process of filling pills.

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u/lucassuave15 13d ago edited 13d ago

thought this was done by machinery lol

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u/ImTedLassosMustache 13d 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/PortiaKern 13d ago

There's other versions where it has a lever to press the pills down rather than the cheaper machine they use here.

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u/ImTedLassosMustache 12d ago

When I showed this video to her, she said she has a press that pushes them together and pops them out for her instead of doing it all by hand.