Patent ID: 8119105

Claim:
An aerosol container for pharmaceutically active aerosols that are to be administered in predetermined amounts and that are supplied in the container in the form of a suspension, the suspension also comprising, in addition to a pharmaceutically active substance, at least a propellant gas, which aerosol container has a metering valve that comprises a metering chamber and a valve stem, the metering chamber being in communication with the interior of the container and being full of a predetermined amount of the aerosol in a first position of the valve stem, and releasing the amount of aerosol disposed in the metering chamber in a second position of the valve stem, wherein the propellant gas is an alternative propellant gas that is free of fluorochlorohydrocarbons and, where appropriate, also cosolvents and/or surfactants, and wherein the inner wall of the container is coated with a plastics coating.