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Tamper-Evident IBCs: When You Actually Need Them
Tamper-evident seals on IBCs come in several styles and price points. For most industrial chemistry they are unnecessary; for a few specific applications they are required. Here is what regulators and customers actually expect.
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Where they are required
- Pharmaceutical and biologics: required by cGMP for most product classes.
- Food applications crossing certain audit programs (SQF, BRC) at higher levels.
- Some controlled-substance precursor chemistry, by DEA rule.
Where they are common but not required
Long-haul shipping (especially cross-border), high-value chemistry, and any application where the receiver's QA program scores incoming containers on seal integrity.
Common seal styles
Numbered plastic seals through the valve cap and top lid; wire-and-lead seals for higher-security applications; printed pull-strip seals on the top opening. We can affix any of these as part of a reconditioning order; the per-unit cost is trivial relative to the rest of the operation.
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