Pharmaceutical water is the most used ingredient in pharmaceutical industries being used directly for the drug manufacturing process and indirectly for the system and equipments cleaning. For these reasons the Pharmaceutical water equipments are one of the most important and critical part of a pharmaceutical facility.

Pharmaceutical water uses are:

• Ingredient in drugs manufacturing
• Ingredient in Active Pharmaceutical Ingrdient (API) or Bulk Pharmaceutical Chemical (BPC)
• Equipment rinsing and cleaning

The water quality used for pharmaceutical purpose could be defined from the pharmacopoeias or, depending from the specific process could exceed the states values having more stringent parameters.
The choice of the water requirements for the specific process is a resposability of the Pharmaceutical Company.

Pharmaceutical waters complying  the pharmacopoeias requirements  are called compendial water, waters having specific characteristic defined for a specific process, several times exceeding the Pharmacopoeias limits, are called non compendial water.

Elettracqua designs systems to meet compendial and non compendial requirements