Pharmaceutical Technology-05-02-2004

In this series of articles, bin blender performance is comprehensively reviewed using both free-flowing and cohesive mixtures. In part 1, an introduction to tools and techniques is presented, followed by an examination of parameter effects, mixing mechanisms, and the effects of cohesion on mixing.

The author describes a separation method for two active ingredients in the contraceptive pill with liquid chromatography UV detection.

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New technologies, along with changes in FDA oversight, may provide a critical path to make more new drugs available more quickly to patients.

Drug makers and their suppliers will need good planning and organization to meet the new bar coding requirements for drug products used in hospitals.

From data acquisition to enterprise resource planning, software systems operating at all levels of pharmaceutical manufacturing prepare for the seemingly inevitable implementation of process anlytical technology.

Sponsors who have been lax in performing financial due diligence on their contractors have been given a wake-up call by the recent developments at aaiPharma.

The author suggests that an excipient's functionality can only be determined in the context of a specific formulation and manufacturing process.

Bin blender performance is comprehensively reviewed using both free-flowing and cohesive mixtures.

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