PTSM: Pharmaceutical Technology Sourcing and Management-06-07-2016

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.

Understanding of the basic principles of balance and scale enables a user to achieve a qualified weighing process.

Effective harvesting and purification processes play an essential role in ensuring that biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes provide biologic drug substances with uniform and consistent properties.

Outsourcing budgets continue to grow, but at a slower pace than observed in the past couple of years.

Production of kilogram-scale batches of synthetic molecules for early-stage development are now available to US customers.

The company opened its 62,000 square foot facility, called the BioProcess Innovation Center, in Triangle Park, NC.

The company opened a new sales office located in Seoul, South Korea.

The company expanded its topicals capacity with an investment in the Becomix RW30 model homogenizer.

SPECTRO XEPOS spectrometers handle rapid screening elemental analysis and support product quality control at-line for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals.

Live Track focus tracking technology on the Renishaw inVia Qontor Raman microscope enables the analysis of samples with uneven, curved, or rough surfaces.

The Litesizer 500 from Anton Paar determines particle size, zeta potential, and molecular mass by using light-scattering technology.

The Metrohm 917 Karl Fischer Coulometer is a stand-alone coulometer for routine water analysis.

Rigaku Analytical Devices’ Progeny 1064nm handheld Raman analyzer is compliant with the new calibration standards published by the European Pharmacopeia .

The ICPMS-2030 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments is designed for efficient, sensitive trace element analysis.

The PPSQ-51A/53A protein sequencers from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments feature the company’s SPD-M30A photodiode array detector.

The Thermo Scientific iCAP RQ ICP-MS spectrometer can perform unattended sample analysis to maximize sample throughput and overall productivity.

Discovery DSC line of differential scanning calorimeters from TA Instruments feature enhanced sensing technologies.

The Thermo Scientific TruScan RM Analyzer features a chemometrics package that allows users to build customized models for both qualitative and quantitative sample predictions.

Lagarde will be based out of the company’s Boston office and will lead Patheon’s global corporate and cross-enterprise operations.

The agency published guidance on data integrity as it is relates to CGMP compliance.

Texture analyzers can be used to evaluate wall hardness and elasticity of softgel capsules.