EP3834802A1 - Dispositif de distribution de produits, de préférence des médicaments - Google Patents

Dispositif de distribution de produits, de préférence des médicaments Download PDF

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EP3834802A1
EP3834802A1 EP20213176.9A EP20213176A EP3834802A1 EP 3834802 A1 EP3834802 A1 EP 3834802A1 EP 20213176 A EP20213176 A EP 20213176A EP 3834802 A1 EP3834802 A1 EP 3834802A1
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Roberto Guglielmi
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    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
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  • the present disclosure relates in general to a device for distributing products. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a distribution device configured to transport and dispense products, preferably medicinal products. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a trolley for distributing medicinal products intended to be used in hospital environments.
  • each patient is assigned an "identifier" which can be recognized for example by means of a bracelet comprising a bar code.
  • the identifier of each patient is associated with a precise medicine to be administered to the patient and the dosage of this medicine.
  • the operation of distributing the medicines to the patients is performed by an operator with the aid of a medicine distribution trolley.
  • the operator identifies the medicines to be administered to the patient in question by reading, for example, by means of a bar-code reader, the identifier of the patient which is present, for example, on the patient's bracelet.
  • the operator sees the dosage and the drugs which are to be administered to the patient.
  • the computer system of the hospital establishment associates with each patient identifier the exact medical prescription.
  • the operator then manually removes the medicines indicated on the trolley screen from the trolley itself. This step is of crucial importance.
  • the trolleys which are currently used contain one or more drawers inside which a plurality of boxes containing drugs are stored.
  • This system of distributing the medicines contained inside the trolleys is particularly disadvantageous since the hospital staff may, by mistake, remove from the distribution drawer the wrong medicine for a given patient.
  • the trolleys which are currently used are such that the medicine distribution operations are particularly time-consuming.
  • the present disclosure proposes providing a device for the distribution of products, in particular medicinal products, which is able to overcome the drawbacks mentioned above with reference to the prior art and/or achieve further advantages.
  • the present disclosure is based on the recognition by the author of the present disclosure that the trolleys which are nowadays used in hospital and nursing structures or in care homes for the distribution of medicines are particularly disadvantageous.
  • the overall configuration of the known trolleys may result in the incorrect distribution, by the operating staff, of the drugs to the patients and the distribution operations are particularly long and complex owing to the fact that, since there are many types of medicines, medicines of different kinds are stored in the same compartment of the trolley and the operating staff must always pay particular attention when they pick out and choose the medicine.
  • the device for distributing products is configured to separate medicines of different kinds in different compartments of a trolley.
  • the device consists of a device for distributing products, preferably medicinal products, which is configured for the transport and dispensing of products according to the present disclosure and which comprises a support frame and a rotating drum supported by this support frame and rotatable with respect thereto about an axis of rotation.
  • the rotating drum is a cylinder.
  • the rotating drum of the product distribution device comprises in turn a plurality of housings in which each housing is configured, in use, to contain a product, preferably a medicinal product, preferably a single product, preferably a medicinal product, namely a single type of medicine.
  • each housing is configured to contain one and only one medicinal product, for example a box, blister pack or phial containing a specific drug, namely a single type of medicine.
  • immediate product is understood in the broad sense as meaning a product intended for the cure or treatment of a person.
  • the distribution device further comprises, in said support frame, at least one access opening for access to one of the housings of the plurality of housings of the rotating drum. Said access opening allows a user access to this housing and withdrawal of the product, preferably a medicinal product, contained therein.
  • the distribution device according to the present disclosure comprises a management unit configured to select the housing containing a specific product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed.
  • the management unit is also configured to control means for rotation of the rotating drum which rotate said drum about the axis of the rotation so that the housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed and administered to a patient is located at the access opening.
  • Each housing may have dimensions so as to contain a single package of a medicinal product or several packages of the same type of medicine.
  • each housing of the plurality of housings contains a single type of medicine.
  • the management unit selects the specific housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed to the patient and controls the rotation means so that only that given product, preferably a medicinal product, may be dispensed through the access opening and administered to the patient.
  • the distribution device dispenses automatically only one type of product, preferably a medicinal product, at a time. Moreover, the errors which may be made by the staff during withdrawal of the medicine and administration thereof to the patient are eliminated or reduced by the fact that the device selects the medicinal product to be administered and allows the dispensing only of that medicinal product.
  • the plurality of housings of the rotating drum is defined by a plurality of circular sectors arranged consecutively along a circumferential direction of the rotating drum.
  • each housing is a circular sector of the rotating drum.
  • the entire circumference of the drum is thus made use of and the space of the trolley is made full use of by dividing it up into sectors.
  • the drawer which is configured, in use, to contain the medicinal products in conventional trolleys is replaced by a drum, preferably a cylindrical drum comprising a plurality of circular sectors each defining a housing configured to contain a single medicinal product.
  • a drum preferably a cylindrical drum comprising a plurality of circular sectors each defining a housing configured to contain a single medicinal product.
  • the housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed is selected automatically and arranged, or placed, at the access opening by the rotation means.
  • This therefore eliminates the possibility of the operator having to select manually a medicinal product contained inside a drawer from among a plurality of other medicinal products to be administered to the patient. Therefore, the risks of picking out and administering a wrong medicine to a given patient are reduced or eliminated.
  • the distribution device comprises an adjustment device configured to modify the dimensions of a housing defined by a circular sector of the rotating drum.
  • such an adjustment device comprises an abutment element arranged inside the housing and variation means for changing the position of the abutment element inside the housing in a radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation.
  • the abutment element is slidable inside the housing along a radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation of the rotating drum.
  • the abutment element acts in fact as a bottom wall of the housing.
  • each housing may be modified depending on the product, preferably a medicinal product, intended, in use, to be contained within this specific housing of the plurality of housings. Therefore, the withdrawal of this medicinal product may be facilitated.
  • a housing identifier is associated with each housing of the plurality of housings.
  • a product identifier preferably a medicinal identifier
  • each product preferably a medicinal product, intended, in use, to be contained inside a housing of the plurality of housings of the distribution device.
  • the management unit of the distribution device is configured to save the housing identifier and the product identifier, preferably medicinal identifier, and associate the housing identifier of each housing of the plurality of housings with the product identifier, preferably medicinal identifier, of the product, preferably a medicinal product, contained, in use, in said housing.
  • a unique association exists or may exist between a housing and the product, in particular medicinal product, contained in said housing. More particularly, there exists a unique correspondence or association between the product identifier, or medicinal identifier, and the housing identifier of the housing in which the medicine identified by said medicinal identifier is contained.
  • the dispensing of the product may be performed in a substantially automatic manner.
  • the distribution device comprises means for reading a patient identifier which is configured to be associated at least with a product identifier, preferably a medicinal identifier. Consequently, the management unit may control automatically the dispensing of a product, preferably a medicinal product, which may be associated with said patient identifier once the identifier associated with said user has been determined, read, or identified.
  • the distribution device comprises a plurality of rotating drums or cylinders arranged consecutively and side by side along the axis of rotation, each rotating drum being configured to rotate about said axis of rotation independently of the other rotating drums.
  • each rotating drum comprises a plurality of housings, each of which is configured to contain, or house, a single product, preferably a medicinal product.
  • the distribution device comprises a plurality of rotating drums which are identical or substantially identical to each other and which may rotate independently of each other. Viewed in another way, it is as though a large drum were divided up into several "slices". Each "slice" of the drum therefore comprises several "segments" each corresponding to a housing, and each housing may contain a single medicine or a single type of medicine.
  • the product distribution device may contain a greater number of products, preferably medicinal products. Moreover, the operations for distributing the products, preferably medicinal products, to the patients may be performed more quickly
  • the distribution device comprises an access opening for each of the rotating drums of the plurality of rotating drums.
  • Each of these access openings is configured to allow access to a housing of a corresponding of a corresponding rotating drum.
  • each rotating drum has a corresponds access opening which allows access to a housing of the plurality of housings of said rotating drum.
  • the management unit is further configured to select a rotating drum of the plurality of rotating drums to be rotated by means of the rotation means.
  • the management unit selects the rotating drum comprising in one of its housings the product, preferably the medicinal product, to be dispensed and controls the rotation means so as to rotate said rotating drum so that the housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed is placed at the access opening corresponding to this rotating drum.
  • the present disclosure furthermore relates to a method for distribution of products, preferably medicinal products.
  • the method according to the present disclosure comprises a step of rotating a rotating drum about an axis of rotation in a support frame.
  • Said rotating drum comprises a plurality of housings, each of which is configured, in use, to contain a product, preferably a medicinal product, preferably a single medicinal product.
  • the method comprises a further step of accessing a housing of the plurality of housings for withdrawal of a product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed.
  • a management step for managing and selecting the housing containing the product, preferably the medicinal product, to be dispensed.
  • the method comprises a step of rotating, by means of the management unit, the at least one rotating drum about the axis of rotation so that the housing containing the product, preferably the medicinal product, to be dispensed is placed at an access opening.
  • the method according to the present disclosure dispenses one medicinal product at a time. Consequently, any errors which may be made by the staff during withdrawal of a medicine are eliminated or reduced.
  • a housing identifier is associated with each housing of the plurality of housings.
  • a product identifier preferably a medicinal identifier
  • each product preferably a medicinal product, intended to be contained in one of the housings.
  • the management unit is configured to save said housing identifier and product identifier, preferably medicinal identifier, and to associate the housing identifier of each housing with the product identifier, or medicinal identifier, of the product, preferably a medicinal product, intended, in use, to be contained inside said housing.
  • the dispensing of the product may be performed in a substantially automatic manner.
  • the distribution device comprises means for reading a patient identifier.
  • This patient identifier is configured to be associated with a product identifier, preferably medicinal identifier.
  • the method according to the present disclosure comprises the step of detecting this patient identifier using said reading means.
  • the dispensing of at least one medicinal product may be performed by simply identifying the patient identifier.
  • the management unit identifies or selects the housing containing the medicinal product to be dispensed and rotates by means of the rotation means the at least one rotating drum so that said housing is located at the access opening so that the product may be withdrawn.
  • the method comprises a further step of filling the distribution device.
  • the filling step comprises the determination of the medicinal identifiers of the product, preferably medicinal products, to be dispensed and the association, by means of the management unit, with the medicinal identifier of a medicinal product to be dispensed, of a housing identifier of a housing without, or not containing, a product, preferably a medicinal product.
  • the filling step involves housing the product, preferably a medicinal product, inside said housing.
  • the filling step of the distribution device may also be automated.
  • the distribution device itself, in particular the management unit, which indicates to the staff the medicinal products to be inserted inside the said distribution device.
  • the management unit indicates to the staff which medicinal products must be distributed during a following product distribution step.
  • the management unit controls the rotation, via the rotation means, of the at least one rotating drum so that a housing of the plurality of housings without, or not containing, a medicinal device is placed at the access opening.
  • the management unit associates the identifier of the medicinal product to be inserted in the distribution device with the housing identifier of said housing which does not contain a medicinal device.
  • each embodiment forming the subject of the present disclosure may have one or more of the advantages listed above; in any case it is not required that each embodiment should have simultaneously all the advantages listed.
  • an embodiment of a distribution device for distributing products is indicated by the reference number 100.
  • the expression “distribution device” is understood as meaning within the context of the present disclosure a device configured for the transport or distribution, or dispensing, of products, preferably medicinal products, referred to in the jargon also as "medicine trolley".
  • the product distribution device dispenses the products in an automatic or automated manner.
  • the distribution device 100 comprises a support frame 10 and at least one rotating drum 20 supported by said support frame 10 and rotatable with respect to the latter about an axis of rotation X.
  • the axis of rotation X is a horizontal axis, namely an axis parallel to a surface on which the distribution device 100 is configured to be displaced.
  • the rotating drum 20 of the distribution device 100 may have any form.
  • said rotating drum 20 is a rotating cylinder supported by the support frame 10 and rotatable with respect thereto about the axis of rotation X.
  • the rotating drum 20 is a semi-cylinder, or a cylinder portion, supported by the support frame 10 and rotatable with respect thereto.
  • the at least one rotating drum 20 of the distribution device 100 comprises a plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c.
  • Each housing of said plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c is configured, in use, to house or contain one and only one product, preferably a medicinal product.
  • the distribution device 100 furthermore comprises at least one access opening 30 for access to a housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c.
  • the access opening 30 is arranged in the support frame 100 and is configured to allow a user access to a housing, for example for withdrawal of a product, preferably a medicinal product contained, or housed, inside said housing.
  • the distribution device 100 comprises means 70 for closing the access opening 30.
  • these closing means are configured to be moved from a closed position of the access opening 30 to an open position of the said access opening 30.
  • this open position allows the withdrawal of a medicinal product housed inside one of the housings 20a, 20b, 20c.
  • the closed position prevents the withdrawal of a medicinal product. In other words, when the closing means 70 are in said closed position, access to one of said housings 20a, 20b, 20c is prevented.
  • the housings of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c are preferably arranged consecutively along a circumferential direction C, namely the housings are distributed around the axis of rotation X of the drum.
  • the housings are arranged side by side in series or succession inside the at least one drum 20.
  • the housings are defined inside said at least one drum 20 so as to be arranged side by side, or in sequence, with respect to each other, preferably over the entire circumference of said at least one drum 20.
  • the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c is defined by a plurality of circular sectors arranged consecutively along the circumferential direction C of the at least one rotating drum 20, namely are distributed around the axis of rotation X.
  • each housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c is a circular sector of said at least one rotating drum 20.
  • the rotating drum 20 is a cylinder and the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c are arranged in a circumferential direction C preferably over the whole length of the circumference of the rotating cylinder.
  • each housing defined by said circular sectors is configured, in use, to contain only one product, preferably a medicinal product.
  • Medical product is understood as meaning, in the context of the present disclosure, a box or a blister pack containing a medicine or a phial containing a medicine or a single type of medicine.
  • the distribution device 100 comprises an adjustment device 60 configured to modify the dimensions of a housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c defined by a circular sector of the plurality of circular sectors.
  • the adjustment device 60 is configured to vary the dimensions of a housing, in order to facilitate the withdrawal of a product, preferably a medicinal product, contained inside the said housing.
  • the adjustment device 60 is configured to modify a depthwise dimension of said housing. In other words, the adjustment device 60 modifies the dimension of the housing in the radial direction.
  • the adjustment device 60 comprises an abutment element 61 arranged inside said housing and acting as a bottom wall.
  • the abutment element 61 is arranged opposite, in a radial direction of the rotating drum 20, to the access opening 30 when the housing is located at said access opening 30.
  • the abutment element 61 is a base or bottom element on which a medicinal device may rest when the housing inside which it is contained is located at the access opening 30.
  • the adjustment device 60 further comprises variation means 62 for changing the position of the abutment element 61 inside the housing in a radial direction with respect to the axis of rotation X.
  • the variation means 62 are configured to change the depth of the housing inside which they are arranged. Consequently, the dimensions of each housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c may be modified depending on the medicinal product which, in use, they are configured to contain.
  • the distribution device 100 further comprises a management unit 40.
  • Said management unit 40 is configured, in use, to select, preferably during dispensing of a product, the housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c containing the medicinal product to be dispensed.
  • the management unit 40 is configured to control rotation means 50 which are configured to rotate the at least one rotating drum 20 about the axis of rotation X.
  • the management unit 40 controls the rotation of the rotating drum 20 so that said selected housing, containing the medicinal product to be dispensed, is placed, or positioned, at the access opening 30.
  • the management unit determines which housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c contains the medicinal product which must be dispensed and, by means of the rotation means 50, causes the rotation of the rotating drum 50 so that the product to be dispensed may be withdrawn through the access opening 30.
  • the management unit 40 causes the displacement, via for example displacement means, of the access opening 30 opposite the housing containing the medicinal product to be dispensed.
  • the drum 20 comprising the plurality of housings 20a, 20, 20c containing the medicinal products may be fixed with respect to the support housing 10, and it is the access opening 30 which is displaced opposite the housing containing the product to be dispensed in order to allow the withdrawal of this medicinal product to be dispensed.
  • both the drum 20 and the access opening 30 are movable and the management unit 40 is configured to perform the displacement of the drum 20 and the access opening 30 so as to allow the dispensing of a medicinal product contained inside a housing of the plurality of housings 20a,20b, 20c of the drum 20.
  • the access opening 30 and the housing containing the medicinal product to be dispensed are in relative movement with respect to each other.
  • the management unit 40 is configured to displace the closing means 70 of the access opening 30 from the closed position to the open position, and vice versa. More specifically, the closing means 70 are located preferably in a closed position of the access opening 70.
  • the dispensing of a product, preferably a medicinal product, contained in the distribution device is automated.
  • a housing identifier is associated with each housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c.
  • a product identifier preferably a medicinal identifier
  • each product preferably a medicinal product, intended, in use, to be housed or contained in one of said housings 20a, 20b, 20c.
  • both the housings and the medicinal products intended to be arranged inside said housings are characterized by a specific identifier.
  • the medicinal identifier of a specific medicinal product may be bar code of said medicine, while the housing identifier may be a number of said housing.
  • the management unit 40 is configured to save said housing identifier and product identifier or medicinal identifier.
  • the management unit 40 may comprise an internal memory configured to save said identifiers.
  • the management unit 40 is further configured to associate the product identifier, preferably medicinal identifier, of a specific product, preferably a medicine product, with the housing identifier of the housing which contains, in use, that specific medicine or which is configured, in use, to contain that medicinal product.
  • the distribution device 100 comprises furthermore means for reading a patient identifier.
  • each patient of a hospital structure can in fact be identified by means of a patient identifier contained, for example, in a bar code, or on an RFID label or in a QR code present, for example, on a patient's bracelet.
  • the distribution device 100 therefore comprises means for reading said patient identifier, for example reading means configured to read a bar code, or an RFID label, or a QR code.
  • each patient identifier is configured to be associated with at least one product identifier, preferably at least one medicinal identifier.
  • product identifier preferably at least one medicinal identifier.
  • medicinal identifiers corresponding to the products, preferably medicinal products which the patient must take, is/are associated with each user identifier.
  • the management unit 40 is furthermore configured to save said patient identifiers with which one or more product identifiers, or medicinal identifiers, is/are associated.
  • the product identifiers, or medicinal identifiers which represent the products, or the medicines, which the patient must take, and which the distribution device 100 must dispense to that given patient, are associated with each patient identified by means of said patient identifier.
  • the management unit 40 performs the rotation, by means of the rotation means 50, of the at least one rotating drum about the axis of rotation X, so that the housing identified by the housing identifier associated with the product identifier, or medicinal identifier which is in turn associated with the patient identifier, is arranged at the access opening 30.
  • the distribution device 100 comprises a plurality of rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. These rotating drums are arranged consecutively and side by side along the axis of the rotation X and are rotatable about said axis of rotation X independently of each other.
  • each drum of the plurality of rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 is identical, or substantially identical, to the rotating drum 20 described above.
  • each rotating drum 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 comprises a plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c, each of which is configured, in use, to contain a single medicinal product.
  • each housing of each rotating drum is a circular sector of the respective rotating drum.
  • the distribution device 100 comprises a plurality of access openings 30.
  • the distribution device 100 comprises an access opening 30 for each of the rotating drums of the plurality of rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
  • Each access opening 30 is configured to allow the access to a housing of a respective rotating drum of the plurality of rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24.
  • the management unit 40 is further configured to select a rotating drum of the plurality of rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 to be rotated by means of the rotation means 50.
  • the rotation means 50 are configured to rotate each rotating drum of the plurality of rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 independently of the other rotating drums.
  • the management unit performs the rotation of the rotating drum which contains, in one of the respective housings, the product, preferably the medicinal product, to be dispensed.
  • the management unit determines in which of the rotating drums this medicinal product to be dispensed is housed and, inside this rotating drum, determines in which housing the medicinal product to the dispensed is contained. Then it causes the rotation means 50 to rotate this drum until the associated housing comprising the product to be dispensed is located at the access opening 30 of that rotating drum.
  • the distribution device comprises closing means 70 for each of the access openings 30 of the rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. More specifically, the closing means 70 are configured to close and/or open selectively the access openings 30 of the rotating drums 20, 21, 22, 23, 24. In other words, the closing means 70 of each access opening 30 may be moved from a closed position into an open position, and vice versa, independently of the closing means 70 of the other access openings 30.
  • the management unit 40 is further configured to perform the movement of the closing means 70. Namely, once the housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed, has been positioned at an access opening 30, the management unit performs the opening of the closing means of that access opening 30, while maintaining the closed position of the closing means 70 of the other access openings 30.
  • the present disclosure furthermore relates to a method for distribution of products, preferably medicinal products.
  • the method according to the present disclosure comprises a step of providing a distribution device 100 for distributing products, preferably medicinal products, comprising at least one rotating drum 20 rotatable about an axis of rotation X.
  • Said at least one rotating drum 20 is supported by a support frame 10 and comprises a plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c each of which is configured, in use, to contain a single medicinal product.
  • the method comprises a further step of providing in the support frame 10 an access opening 30 which allows access to a housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c for the withdrawal of a product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed. Also is envisaged is a step of providing a management unit 40 configured to select the housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed.
  • the method also involves controlling, by means of the management unit 40, rotation means 50 configured to rotate the at least one rotating drum 20 about the axis of rotation X in such a way that the housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed is placed at the aforementioned access opening 30.
  • a housing identifier is associated with each housing of the plurality of housings 20a, 20b, 20c.
  • a product identifier preferably a medicinal identifier
  • the management unit 40 is configured to save said housing identifier and product identifier, or medicinal identifier, and to associate the housing identifier of each housing with the product identifier, preferably medicinal identifier, of the product, preferably a medicinal product, intended, in use, to be contained in said housing.
  • the method involves the reading of a patient identifier.
  • This patient identifier is configured to be associated with a product identifier, preferably a medicinal identifier.
  • the method according to the present disclosure comprises the step of detecting this patient identifier using said reading means. Consequently, the management unit 40, depending on the medicinal identifier associated with said patient identifier, performs the rotation of the rotating drum 20 via the rotation means 50 in such a way that the housing containing the product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed is placed at the access opening 30.
  • the management unit 40 performs the opening of the closing means 70 so that a user may withdraw the medicinal product from said housing.
  • the method comprises a further step of filling the distribution device 100.
  • the filling step comprises the determination of the product identifiers, preferably medicinal identifiers, of the products, preferably a medicinal product to be dispensed and the association, by means of the management unit 40, with the product identifier, or medicinal identifier, of a product, preferably a medicinal product, to be dispensed, of a housing identifier of a housing without, or not containing, a product, preferably a medicinal product.
  • the filling step involves housing the product, preferably a medicinal product, inside said housing.

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