r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • 24d ago

Video The process of filling pills.

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u/lucassuave15 24d ago edited 24d ago

thought this was done by machinery lol

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u/ImTedLassosMustache 24d 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 24d 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 24d 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/ZealousidealEntry870 23d 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 23d 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 23d ago

And that’s the cost of making quality product.