The suitability of bottles, ampoules, syringes and other glassware for use in pharmaceutical applications must be verified by means of a series of specific procedures, detailed in special collections of regulations called Pharmacopoeia. Each national market refers to its own body of legislation, but at a global level the European (Ph. Eur.), United States (U.S.P.) and Japanese (J.P.) Pharmacopoeia have particular relevance as a model of reference.

SSV provides a service of spectrophotometric measurements of colorimetric parameters, luminance, dominant wavelength, purity and CIE Lab coordinates, which are determined on plane-parallel flat-faced specimens, and normalized, when necessary, to a certain reference thickness (to be indicated).