Sustainable pharmaceuticals: what about pine-based painkillers?
UK researchers have developed two of the world’s most common painkillers from a pine-derived compound, meaning new sustainable turpentine-based pharmaceuticals could be on their way.
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UK researchers have developed two of the world’s most common painkillers from a pine-derived compound, meaning new sustainable turpentine-based pharmaceuticals could be on their way.
Following the recent launch of the BSI’s AMR certification, EPR invited Steve Brooks from the AMR Industry Alliance and BSI’s Courtney Soulsby to elucidate its significance for antibiotic manufacturers and the wider pharma industry.
Entries are open for the Pharmapack Awards 2024, which aims to showcase innovations in global drug delivery and packaging.
Regulatory changes along a drug’s lifecycle should ensure that the health benefits of pharmaceuticals, which have a large ecological footprint, do not cost the environment. Dorothea Baltruks, Research Associate at the Centre for Planetary Health Policy, outlines how forthcoming EU pharmaceutical legislation could pave the way to solutions.
Takeda’s largest manufacturing capacity expansion investment in Japan will fund the build of a new facility for plasma-derived therapies.
In this Q&A Miriam Guest, Principal Microbiologist at AstraZeneca UK, discusses trends in bacterial endotoxin testing, as well as factors to consider when looking to implement rapid methods.
€7.7 million has been awarded to IMPACTIVE by the European Commission to study mechanochemistry as a sustainable method for synthesising active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs).
With manufacturing of essential medicines in Europe at risk, Teva’s Phillippe Drechsle looks at the action needed to stop further offshoring to Asia.
Awards for innovative drug delivery solutions, reusable connected devices and recyclable packaging have been announced at Pharmapack Europe 2023.
Two Big Pharma companies and one CDMO have been awarded the Terra Carta Seal, which recognises the efforts of global companies in their commitment to sustainability.
Two new zones will be launched at Pharmapack Europe in 2024, to support growing demand for biologics, mRNA therapeutics and contract packaging.
Four Japanese pharmaceutical companies agree to collaborate on promoting more sustainable pharmaceutical packaging.
AstraZeneca has signed a strategic agreement to expand its existing partnership with a healthcare company in Abu Dhabi to locally manufacture innovative drugs.
Manufacturers of (bio)pharmaceuticals, medical devices and in vitro diagnostics have the opportunity to lead the way in the defossilisation of organic chemicals. Here Martin Held from the Institute of Biotechnology of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Roche’s Stefan Koenig, Martin Olbrich and Jan Backmann propose how to reduce…
CPI has opened its Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre in Scotland to focus on efficient, sustainable manufacturing and advance medicine research.