Pharmaceutical Technology-01-02-2011

The European Commission and Medicines Agency seem to be moving in advance of their ICH partners to update standards.

Industry executives share insight into the future direction of drug manufacturing and the supply chain. This article contains online bonus material.

The authors conducted an experiment to determine the type of extrusion that provides the best productivity and pellet quality. This article contains online bonus material.

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The manufacture of orally dissolving films is done by various methods such as solvent casting, hot-melt extrusion, semisolid casting, solid-dispersion extrusion, and rolling. The authors discuss these methods and the various parameters in which dissolving films are evaluated.

Here's to Second Chances

Multiple attempts and do-over approaches should eventually solve the problem at stake.