May 01, 2012
Pharmaceutical Technology
Closed-vial technology is an alternative to traditional glass vial filling that reduces the risk of contamination for the patient, simplifies the filling process, and provides easier handling for healthcare providers.
Apr 11, 2012
ePT--the Electronic Newsletter of Pharmaceutical Technology
By Pharmaceutical Technology Editors
FDA has released a final guidance describing cGMP for preparing media fills for validation of aseptic preparations for positron emission tomography drugs.
Dec 01, 2011
Pharmaceutical Technology Europe
Contamination is almost always related to human error and there is a clear drive to reduce human implications in aseptic operations. This can be achieved in multiple ways.
Oct 19, 2011
Equipment and Processing Report
The future, and increasingly the present, for aseptic operations is isolated robotics. Companies that wish to gain competitive advantages in their operations are stepping up and taking notice.
Sep 02, 2011
By Pharmaceutical Technology Editors
Powder Systems Ltd's (PSL's) new GFD™ isolator combines the latest innovation to provide a high containment lab scale filtration and drying solution with the same reliability and benefits as PSL high containment production size filter dryers.
Sep 01, 2011
Pharmaceutical Technology Europe
Henrik Schwartzbach, senior process technologist at GEA Niro, explins why spray drying is seeing increased uptake in the pharma industry.
May 01, 2011
Pharmaceutical Technology
The authors question certain aspects of the industry's current regulatory-compliance strategy and suggest that aseptic-process control and evaluation should be revised.
Apr 20, 2011
Equipment and Processing Report
By Pharmaceutical Technology Editors
We want to fill one of our oxygen-sensitive products inside an isolator system. Can we run an isolator with pure nitrogen and defined humidity?
Apr 02, 2011
Pharmaceutical Technology
The authors revisit their previous effort to refine the terms that describe interventions and to dispel confusion that arose after the original article was published.
Dec 01, 2010
Pharmaceutical Technology Europe
The growing uptake of single-use sterile packaging in pharmaceutical production processes mirrors the broader trend towards single-use across every sector of the pharmaceutical industry.
