Cost for vaccine packaging formats compared

27 February 2018

Polymer containers may address many of the limitations of glass packaging for vaccines. The ability of polymer containers to achieve cost of goods sold (COGS) and total cost of delivery (TCOD) competitive with that of glass containers is unclear. COGS and TCOD models for oral and parenteral vaccine packaging formats were developed based on information from subject matter experts, published literature, and Kenya’s multiyear plan for immunization. For oral vaccine packaging, BFS multi-monodose (MMD) ampoules were the least expensive format. For parenteral vaccines, the lowest COGS was achieved with ten-dose glass vials at $0.22 per dose. An article about this research was published in Vaccine.
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