Pharmaceutical Technology-11-02-2002

November's Contract Services articles include "Outsourcing Xbox Manufacturing," by Heather Hayes, "Outsourcing Outlook," by Jim Miller, and "Quality in Pharmacovigilance," by Brian Edwards and Jeffrey Priem.

FDA is juggling momentous changes, including new leadership and the proposed transfer of oversight for therapeutic biotech drugs.

For a monovalent species, a simple calculation that does not assume partitioning of the ionized species in the oil phase can provide an accurate estimate of the distribution coefficient.

The author discusses the current pharmacopeial status of the acceptance limits and classifications of pharmaceutical residual solvents.

Entrapment of miconazole nitrate in liposomes was achieved after studying the effect of various process and formulation variables.