PDA Survey: Availability of Single-Use-System Components and its Potential Impact on Product Supply Survey Results

The survey was focused on companies that have sterile product manufacturing operations in the European Union, United Kingdom, or United States.

For companies that have operations outside of the European Union, United Kingdom, or United States that wanted to take part in the survey, there was an option to select “Other Countries” in the survey in regard to where the manufacturing operations are located that are impacted.

For this survey Single-Use-Systems were defined as an engineered process equipment solution, most commonly assembled from components made using polymeric materials, which together create a system or unit operation designed for one time or one campaign use (e.g., a single use sterile filling train composed of a set of sterile disposable bags, tubing sets, connectors, and filling needles; a single use bioreactor composed of disposable sterile tank liner bags, tubing sets and connectors, etc.).

This was a blinded survey. The Survey opened on 4 Nov 2021 and closed on 15 Nov 2021.