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Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) are new therapeutics that require different procedures for clinical trials compared to traditional medicinal products. It is important to understand the nature and the manufacturing process of an ATMP for set-up and execution of the clinical development and later marketing of these therapies.
The quality attributes of manufactured pharmaceutical products include the physical, chemical, and microbiological characteristics of the raw materials, excipients and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), as well as the final drug product (see Table 1). Absence of microbiological contamination is considered a critical quality attribute due to its potential to dramatically…
In this In-Depth Focus: Quality control of freeze-dried oral formulations; Regulatory and quality assurance challenges in continuous manufacturing...
In this in-depth focus: Compressed gases - an important component of an environmental monitoring programme; The people factor - contamination of cleanrooms caused by personnel...
In this guide to ingredients, two leading companies involved in testing and analysis explain how their service offering meets current industry needs...
Plastic materials, widely used in pharmaceutical packaging systems, can interact with the packaged product by transferring leachables. Leaching is important, as foreign leachable impurities can adversely affect the quality, efficacy and safe use of the packaged product, due to their chemical or physical nature, reactivity, and/or toxicity.
In this in-depth focus: Non-contact single cell adhesion and micromechanical property characterisation with ultrasound. Is high resolution mass spectrometry the missing piece in continuous bioproduction? Regulatory, clinical and logistics challenges of ATMPs in clinical research...
A common obstacle encountered in the early stages of drug development is the formulation of poorly water-soluble drugs (PWSDs). One effective approach to improve the dissolution of PWSDs is to render such drugs into their amorphous or disordered form. However, amorphous materials are both physically and chemically unstable, and tend…
During 2002, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested rationalisation and modernisation of the manufacturing base for pharmaceutical production. This was in the hope that modernising the supply chain would enhance the robustness of manufacturing processes, thereby reducing product failures and, importantly, significantly enhancing product quality.1 The FDA’s…
The regulatory environment has a great impact on business, especially in healthcare. Non-compliance exposes companies to the risk of launch delay, delisting products from the market and out-of-stocks. Moreover, it can cause reputational damage affecting staff, consumer and shareholder confidence, reduce market opportunities, and affect the bottom line.
This article reviews the trends in freeze drying highlighted at recent Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) conferences...
When reviewing the range of activities required to deliver pharmaceutical products of the required high quality within a strict regulatory framework, an organisation will identify services, which while still business critical, are considered as non-core to the mission of the organisation. These non-core services still need to be delivered, either…
Developmental activities for freeze-dried products are dictated by the limited availability and high cost of newly developed active compounds, and by Quality-by-Design requirements. Laboratory-scale freeze dryers used for formulation and process development show an excessive variety of designs and instrumentation concepts, making scale-up activities a challenge. The development of miniaturised…
A thorough understanding and control of extractables and leachables in liquid and semi-solid products has long been a regulatory requirement.1,2 Regulatory guidelines require that product contact surfaces are “not reactive, additive or absorptive”.3
In this issue: Miniaturisation of freeze drying equipment, driving excellence in premises and equipment management, a guide to ingredients, and much more...
