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The scope of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) in real-time advanced control of tablet quality
The scope of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) in real-time advanced control of tablet quality

The scope of PAT in real-time advanced control of tablet quality

20 April 2015 | By Ravendra Singh, Marianthi Ierapetritou and Rohit Ramachandran: Rutgers University

Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing together with process analytical technology (PAT) provides a suitable platform for automatic feed-forward/feed-back (FF/FB) control of the end product quality as desired by quality by design (QbD)-based efficient manufacturing. The precise control of the quality of the pharmaceutical product requires proactive, corrective actions on the process/raw material…

HPLC: On-chip liquid chromatographic separation
HPLC: On-chip liquid chromatographic separation

HPLC: On-chip liquid chromatographic separation

17 April 2015 | By

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a powerful separation technique due to its high accuracy, precision, versatility and robustness. In the development of pharmaceuticals, it is no doubt that LC is a key technology in the quality control of pharmaceuticals and pharmacokinetic studies and in the analysis of complex biological compounds…

Dave Elder, GlaxoSmithKline and JPAG
Dave Elder, GlaxoSmithKline and JPAG

The cost of drug counterfeiting

10 March 2015 | By

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2010 described counterfeit medicines as those which are “Deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source. Counterfeiting can apply to both branded and generic products and counterfeit products may include products with the correct ingredients or with the wrong ingredients, without active…

Turkey: A rising star in the pharmaceutical industry

10 March 2015 | By Özge Atılgan Karakulak and Zeynep Koray, Gün + Partners

You are waiting in line, trying to decipher several different languages spoken around you: English, Dutch, German, Arabic, French… This scene is not from an airport but rather from a Turkish hospital: thousands of foreigners, communicating through translators, visit healthcare institutions every day and numbers are increasing exponentially; in the…

TandAbs: potent and well-manufacturable bi-specific antibodies for immunooncology

10 March 2015 | By Michael Weichel, Kristina Ellwanger, Ivica Fucek, Stefan H.J. Knackmuss, Erich Rajkovic, Uwe Reusch, Claudia Wall, and Eugene A. Zhukovsky, Affimed Therapeutics AG

The bi-specific antibody format is becoming the preferred antibody modality for current development projects in the pharmaceutical industry. This is due to an unsurpassed increase in functional activity relative to traditional mono-specific monoclonal antibodies, and a breakthrough in manufacturability enabled by novel designs. One such bi-specific format, the TandAb, produces…

Continued process verification – a challenge for the pharmaceutical industry?

10 March 2015 | By Michael Rommerskirchen, Boehringer Ingelheim

Nowadays, professional quality and process data trending is key for science-based pharmaceutical development and manufacturing. Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued revised process validation guidance to enforce recurring data analysis as a regulatory core requirement1,2: Periodic product and process monitoring, also known…

Evaluating inhaler performance using idealised throats

10 March 2015 | By Andrew R. Martin and Warren H. Finlay, University of Alberta

The development of orally-inhaled drug products is a complex endeavour spanning multiple technical and medical fields. For the treatment of respiratory diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the inhalation delivery route permits the drug to be directly targeted to the afflicted organ, namely the lung. As…

The role of water activity in the microbial stability of non-sterile pharmaceutical drug products

10 March 2015 | By

Aqueous, multiple-use, non-sterile drug products are susceptible to microbial contamination during their shelf life. To protect these products from this potential hazard to patients, they are formulated with antimicrobial preservatives. Other product attributes employed using the hurdle concept to prevent microbial contamination include: low pH, low redox potential, reduced storage…

Screening In-Depth Focus 2014
Screening In-Depth Focus 2014

Screening: In-Depth Focus 2014

5 January 2015 | By

This free-to-view Screening In-Depth Focus is packed with articles that will give you a greater understanding of interesting topics such as the identification of compounds that protect against free radicals, advancements in sandwich immunoassay techniques and hit validation and optimisation...

PAT In-Depth Focus 2014
PAT In-Depth Focus 2014

PAT: In-Depth Focus 2014

5 January 2015 | By

This PAT In-Depth Focus explores current challenges posed by the slow uptake of Process Analytical Technology within the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. The advantages of incorporating PAT into the pharmaceutical process are highlighted in two informative articles, and possible solutions to its lack of popularity surmised...

Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Laboratories
Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing Laboratories

Eurofins BioPharma product testing laboratories

23 December 2014 | By Eurofins BioPharma

The largest network of harmonised bio/pharmaceutical gross manufacturing product (GMP) testing laboratories worldwide, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing enables companies to advance candidates from development through to commercialisation while ensuring regulatory compliance, cost effectiveness and achievement of timelines...