Finished Product Analysis

The European Pharmacopoeia Commission re-evaluates its policy on the development of monographs for finished drug products.

New systems that combine Raman spectroscopy with automated imaging support the efficient gathering of such data, including information concerning size and shape distributions for individual components within a formulation.

This discussion aims to outline an approach to metal contamination prevention that should achieve a level of control acceptable to all stakeholders.

The authors evaluated the manufacturing data of 40-mg tablets of furosemide, a potent diuretic.

Statistics are often viewed as confusing and complicated, but multivariate data analysis (MVA) methods can be used to amass knowledge simply.

The authors developed a robust, automated system to conduct Karl Fischer moisture assays for lyophilized products.

Recent advances in SEM, particularly the incorporation of automation and software, have made simpler, lower-end SEM instruments easy to operate and have improved the capabilities of larger, sophisticated instruments.

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology described a fast method to detect counterfeit "Tamiflu," Roche's drug for preventing and treating bird flu.

Chemical imaging of solid dosage forms has become a powerful analytical tool for the development of solid dosage forms.