article
Guide to Testing 2024
In this Guide to Testing articles explore limit of detection requirements for microbial testing of short-shelf-life products and sustainable endotoxin testing.
List view / Grid view
QA/QC
article
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 2 2024
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 2 includes articles on cell and gene therapy, from supply chain and manufacturing to microbial testing.
news
Microbe-carrying particle recovery efficacy with manual surface sampling
Three different contact plate methods were tested to determine a convenient manual surface sampling technique for microbial contamination recovery, the paper explained.
news
Study monitors particles and falling bacteria in biosafety cabinets
The type of clothing worn in aseptic manufacturing areas may impact the number of particle and airborne bacteria detected in biosafety cabinets.
article
Safeguarding purity under pressure: detecting nitrosamine contamination
In this article, analytical chemist Venkata Ranga Rao Attaluri explores the ongoing challenges posed by nitrosamine contamination in pharmaceuticals, highlighting the importance of robust and sensitive analytical detection methods.
news
Utilising rapid UHPLC for tablet QC analysis
The proposed UHPLC method is suitable for routine quantitative analysis of teneligliptin and pioglitazone, a paper reports.
news
Widening adoption of animal-free reagents for endotoxin testing
If the proposed USP Chapter < 86 > on using non-animal derived reagents is approved, it will be published for early adoption in November 2024, USP states.
video
Webinar: How Pfizer utilises Enzyme Indicator technology for bio-decontamination validation
Melanie Eggers is a Sterilisation Validation Project Support Engineer at Pfizer Belgium. In this webinar, she explains how Pfizer has adopted Enzyme Indicator (EI) technology for its VHP bio-decontamination procedures. She outlines the differences in EIs compared to more traditional Biological Indicators and the way in which Pfizer utilises the…
news
Analysis of corticosteroid formulations in metered dose inhalers
The spectrophotometric-based method offers rapid and reliable analysis of formoterol and beclomethasone formulations in metered dose inhalers, according to research.
article
Monitoring pharmaceuticals in the environment
Andreas Häner, an environmental risk assessor at Roche in Group Safety, Security, Health & Environmental protection (SHE), speaks to EPR about how the pharmaceutical industry monitors manufacturing emissions that can impact local environments.
news
Using mass spectrometry to improve quality and safety of levothyroxine
A study investigating levothyroxine has reported a new non-targeted analytical approach for pharmaceutical quality control analysis.
news
European and Japanese Pharmacopoeias partner to harmonise pharmacopoeial standards
During the project, the European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) and Japanese Pharmacopoeia (JP) will discuss the challenges in expanding the harmonisation of pharmacopoeial standards to both active substances and medicinal products.
news
Unique testing regimen could prevent nuclease contamination
Biannual routine testing in the laboratory reduces both the likelihood of nuclease contamination occurrence and its impact, a study suggests.
news
Achieving FAIR bacterial identification
A study has reported a noninvasive assay for detecting Gram-negative bacteria biofilms that do not disrupt the pattern of bacterial growth.
news
EP monographs allow rFC for water testing
As of 1 April, two European Pharmacopoeia monographs allow the use of rFC to test for bacterial endotoxins in pharmaceutical waters.
