Safety Syringe Market Gets Shot in the Arm

Approximately 12 billion preventive and curative injections are given each year in the U.S. and Europe, equating to 40 million injections each day. As one of the most widely used devices in medicine, the syringe has been going through a technological metamorphosis during the past decade. Legislation in the U.S. is mandating the healthcare industry replace the inexpensive traditional syringe with a safer but more expensive technology, and this mandate has increased U.S. safety syringe adoption 215% to $758 million in sales within the last 5 years.