TYPES OF GLASS USED IN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES
Parenteral Use
 Type I Glass:
 Highly Resistant Borosillicate.
 Used for Buffered and Unbuffered aqueous solution.
 Type II Glass:
 Highly Resistant Sodalime glass.
 Buffered aqueous solution below pH 7.0
 Type III Glass:
 Moderately Resistant Sodalime glass.
 Used for dry powder and oily solution.
 Non-Parenteral Use
 Type IV Glass:
 General Purpose Sodalime glass.
 Not for parenteral, for tablet, liquid oral and externals.