| Pharmacists consider medication cross-contamination | | | | transferred contaminants could pose serious threats, |
| is a major issue during the pill counting process. Pills | | | | such as allergic reactions from drugs like penicillin and |
| can leave dust or residue on the pill counting unit | | | | sulfides or even death due to contamination from |
| causing safety concerns. To avoid such errors, the | | | | chemotherapy drugs. |
| C-RAY Automatic Pill Counting Machine has optic | | | | Knowing how powerful drugs are and that |
| sensors located at the bottom of the pill chute that | | | | cross-contamination is a major issues for hospitals, |
| can be easily cleaned to eliminate any possibility of | | | | pharmacies and consumers and that |
| contamination. Replacement trays are also available to | | | | cross-contamination could be fatal. Deltatee |
| prevent cross-contamination. | | | | Innovation addresses this issue aggressively during |
| The danger of cross-contamination has been an | | | | the design phase of the C-RAY Pill counting machine. |
| important issue for years, according to research *By | | | | They have designed the C-RAY Pill Counting Machine |
| using a thin layer chromatography, phenoxymethyl | | | | to be easily cleaned and additional replacement trays |
| penicillin, sulphadiazine, aspirin and paracetamol were | | | | in order to circumvent pills contaminating other pills. |
| identified as contaminants which were transferred by | | | | * Po, A. L. W., Morland, I. and Robins, L. (1977), |
| automatic counting machines. Quantitative analysis by | | | | CHEMICAL CROSS-CONTAMINATION IN THE |
| densitometry indicated that as much as 9.75 mg of | | | | PHARMACY. Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and |
| aspirin, the model contaminant used, could be | | | | Therapeutics, 2: 131–135. doi: 10.1111 |
| transferred to 50 hard gelatin capsules following the | | | | j.1365-2710.1977.tb00083. |
| counting of 100 aspirin 300-mg tablets. The | | | | |