Manufacturing

FDA has approved a Pfizer biosimilar to J&J’s top-selling anti-inflammatory biologic, Remicade.

The Quattroflow QF10k size pump from PSG, a Dover company, has been added to its line of quaternary, four-piston diaphragm pumps.

The draft guidance gives recommendations on how certain oral drug products should be labeled regarding gluten.

Children with a rare brainstem-based cancer might be helped by a new immunotherapy that targets a mutated protein found exclusively in cancer cells.

Abzena has entered into a Master Services Agreement with a US biotech company to provide process development and manufacturing services to progress a novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) to clinical trials.

The approval for Admelog (insulin lispro injection) marks the first short-acting insulin approved as a “follow-on” product.

In partnership with Indian pharmaceutical firm, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk has expanded an insulin manufacturing facility at Torrent’s Indrad, Gujarat, India site.

The companies will co-develop and co-commercialize the lead candidate generated from their earlier collaboration to treat genetic blood disorders.

The European Medicines Agency has granted Samsung BioLogics approval to manufacture a monoclonal antibody at the company’s second facility in Songdo, Incheon, South Korea.

The Endress+Hauser iTHERM TrustSens hygienic RTD self-calibrates to verify in-line that the sensor is working as designed

FDA has accepted for review Eli Lilly and Company’s biologic drug candidate that is in development for treating migraine.

The new 30,000-L, $150-million biologics manufacturing facility in Wuxi, China, quintuples the company’s existing manufacturing capability.

Gilead Sciences will acquire Cell Design Labs to further cell-therapy research and development efforts.

The company is expanding its 380,000-square-feet Molex Little Rock facility to include a FDA-registered manufacturing center of excellence for connected health and drug-delivery devices.

Oceasoft has updated its line of Bluetooth-enabled temperature data loggers for shipping and logistics applications.

The contract research, development, and manufacturing organization has expanded API aseptic manufacturing capacity at its Valladolid, Spain, facility.

A survey by LNS Research and sponsored by Honeywell showed that industrial companies are not moving quickly to adopt cyber security; calls on CEOs to take action.

The company will expand two of its Ohio facilities, investing approximately $145 million to support manufacturing and warehouse operations.

Biopharma majors are among the industry stakeholders who have commented and raised questions about FDA’s recently proposed draft guidance for analytical assessment of similarity in biosimilars.

Aero Pump’s preservative-free Multidose Eye Dropper System with SideActuationDevice received the CPhI Pharma Award for Excellence in Pharma: Packaging.

FDA has approved Mylan’s biosimilar to Roche’s blockbuster anti-cancer biologic, Herceptin.

The European Commission’s effort to relax supplementary protection certificates to help generic-drug makers and biosimilars producers has sparked strong opposition from the research-based pharmaceutical sector.

Optimizing water and HVAC systems can reduce resource use in all pharma facilities, and, for biopharma manufacturing, the supply chain of consumables should be evaluated.

Rinse sample analysis or visual inspection are risk-based approaches that can be correlated to surface cleanliness to replace surface sampling in a biopharmaceutical equipment cleaning process.

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