Prescription bottles are orange because it restricts the amount of light going into the bottle!

Prescription bottles are orange because it restricts the amount of light going into the bottle!

You see them at almost any pharmacy; you probably even have a few of them in your medicine cabinet: Orange prescription bottles that contain anything from antibiotics to painkillers, antidepressants to anti-inflammatories.

While orange is not the only color of prescription bottles, there are other colors and opaque white ones, orange is likely to be the most popular color of prescription bottle.

The primary reason for orange-colored prescription bottles, and any colored or opaque prescription bottle, for that matter, is to prevent light from degrading the medicines inside through photochemical reactions

Many substances like milk, beer, medications, degrade with exposure to light. And so to preserve the medication's effectiveness, prescription bottles are created with the intention of keeping light away from the medicines.

And the reason why they are not green or brown it’s because that ruins visibility of the pills.

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