Slow Serialization Efforts May Delay Business Benefits
There are technical hurdles to clear in developing serialization and track-and- trace programs, but it’s the human ones that are proving most difficult to surmount.
Scientific Approach Ensures Accurate Weighing Results
Understanding of the basic principles of balance and scale enables a user to achieve a qualified weighing process.
Ensuring Biologic API Uniformity
Effective harvesting and purification processes play an essential role in ensuring that biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes provide biologic drug substances with uniform and consistent properties.
Biomanufacturing Outsourcing Budgets Grow, Slowly
Outsourcing budgets continue to grow, but at a slower pace than observed in the past couple of years.
Novasep Starts Kilogram-Scale Batch Production at US Facility
Production of kilogram-scale batches of synthetic molecules for early-stage development are now available to US customers.
FUJIFILM Opens New Laboratory in North Carolina
The company opened its 62,000 square foot facility, called the BioProcess Innovation Center, in Triangle Park, NC.
Catalent Opens Korean Sales Office
The company opened a new sales office located in Seoul, South Korea.
Juniper Pharma Services Expands Topicals Capacity
The company expanded its topicals capacity with an investment in the Becomix RW30 model homogenizer.
ED-XRF Spectrometers Offer Rapid Elemental Analysis
SPECTRO XEPOS spectrometers handle rapid screening elemental analysis and support product quality control at-line for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.
Raman Microscope Measures Uneven Surfaces
Live Track focus tracking technology on the Renishaw inVia Qontor Raman microscope enables the analysis of samples with uneven, curved, or rough surfaces.
Particle Analyzer Based on Light Scattering
The Litesizer 500 from Anton Paar determines particle size, zeta potential, and molecular mass by using light-scattering technology.
Karl Fischer Coulometer for Water Analysis
The Metrohm 917 Karl Fischer Coulometer is a stand-alone coulometer for routine water analysis.
Analyzer Complies with New Raman Calibration Standards
Rigaku Analytical Devices’ Progeny 1064nm handheld Raman analyzer is compliant with the new calibration standards published by the European Pharmacopeia .
ICP-MS Designed to Lower Operating Costs
The ICPMS-2030 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments is designed for efficient, sensitive trace element analysis.
Protein Sequencers Comply with 21 CFR Part 11
The PPSQ-51A/53A protein sequencers from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments feature the company’s SPD-M30A photodiode array detector.
Instruments and Software for Trace Elemental Analysis
The Thermo Scientific iCAP RQ ICP-MS spectrometer can perform unattended sample analysis to maximize sample throughput and overall productivity.
DSC Range Features Improved Sensing Technology
Discovery DSC line of differential scanning calorimeters from TA Instruments feature enhanced sensing technologies.
Raman Raw Material Analyzer Adds Chemometrics Capabilities
The Thermo Scientific TruScan RM Analyzer features a chemometrics package that allows users to build customized models for both qualitative and quantitative sample predictions.
Patheon Appoints Michel Lagarde President
Lagarde will be based out of the company’s Boston office and will lead Patheon’s global corporate and cross-enterprise operations.
FDA Releases Data Integrity Guidance
The agency published guidance on data integrity as it is relates to CGMP compliance.
Best Practice: Testing Softgel Capsules
Texture analyzers can be used to evaluate wall hardness and elasticity of softgel capsules.
