The purpose of this standard is to establish the requirements that must be met and the tests to which plastic syringes for single use must be submitted. 2 This standard is not applicable to prefilled syringes, reusable syringes, or syringes for injections that require more accurate dosing, such as insulin or tuberculin syringes, which will be the subject of a specific standard. 3 This standard refers exclusively to syringes made of thermoplastic materials, for general use in medicine, kept sterile in their individual packaging and intended for single use immediately after being removed from their individual packaging.