Cefotaxime Sodium Injection 250mg, 500mg, 1gm Suppliers & Bulk Manufacturers

Available Forms: Injection

Available Strengths: 250mg, 500mg, 1gm

Reference Brands: Claforan (USA/EU)

Category: Antibiotics

Cefotaxime injection is used to treat bacterial infections in many different parts of the body. This medicine is also given before, during, and after certain types of surgery to prevent infections. Cefotaxime injection belongs to the class of medicines known as cephalosporin antibiotics.

Product Description:

This is cefotaxime sodium powder for injection in the smaller vial presentations — 250 mg, 500 mg and 1 g. Cefotaxime is a third-generation parenteral cephalosporin used in meningitis, community-acquired pneumonia, sepsis and serious paediatric infection, with reliable cerebrospinal fluid penetration and no calcium-binding incompatibility, which makes it the preferred third-generation agent in neonates.

The smaller vials exist for paediatric and neonatal dosing, where dose is calculated by body weight and a 1 g vial would mean discarding most of its contents. That is not merely wasteful: reconstituting a large vial for a small dose introduces measurement error and, in units without single-use discipline, the risk of multi-patient use.

Sourcing notes. Vial size is a genuine specification, not a packaging detail, and paediatric tenders should state it explicitly. A supplier quoting only 1 g vials against a neonatal requirement has not read the specification. WHO classifies cefotaxime under Watch, and it appears on the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. Manufacture requires sterile powder-filling capability at the specific site, and smaller-vial filling lines are not universally available even where the plant holds the approval.