The 120-day pilot program was set up to help reduce the availability of unapproved opioids illegally offered for sale online.

The agency published guidance to clarify its enforcement of distribution of drug samples for drug marketing during COVID-19.

The agency has added a COVID-19 innovation resource page and an education resources page to its website.

Siemens and Exyte partner for fast-track construction of modular, automated, digitalized biopharmaceutical facilities.

Novavax announces DoD contract to produce 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

The European Commission is pledging EUR 300 million (US$339 million) to Gavi for vaccines for infectious diseases, in addition to an earlier pledge of more than EUR 1.5 billion (US$1.7 billion) made on May 4, 2020.

SiO2 Materials Science has received $143 million from the US government to accelerate capacity scale-up of its advanced primary packaging platform.

CPhI Worldwide have announced that the 2020 event will be organized in accordance with new global biosafety measures, Informa’s AllSecure health and safety standard, to ensure hygiene and safety of event attendees.

The protocol on Northern Ireland (NI) once Brexit has been completed has received mixed opinions in industry, according to various press releases.

Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies has received a positive opinion in Europe for its two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen.

The collaboration will focus on novel therapeutics targeting RNA-modifying proteins for cancer treatment.

CordenPharma announces expansion of lipid excipients supply for coronavirus vaccine scale up.

The investment will give the company the opportunity to accelerate the development of proprietary boron-10 target drugs while it develops its neutron beam accelerator technology for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy.

The company worked with Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories to conduct independent extractables testing that involved eight solvents tested over a 21-day exposure time frame.

Agreements with the PolyPeptide Group and AGC Biologics will scale up production of the Novavax Matrix-M adjuvant.

The VIA Capsule from Cytiva is a liquid nitrogen-free cryogenic shipment system designed to transport cell therapies.

A new clinical and commercial partnership expands Experic’s presence while providing PCI with advanced powder-filling equipment.

The new vaccine would be made with a Newcastle disease virus vector that expresses the immunogenic spike protein of SARS-CoV-2

The center will offer expertise in fill-finish optimization and analytical testing.

The company is voluntarily recalling all lots of Metformin Hydrochloride Extended Release Tablets, USP, 500 mg and 750 mg, because of the detection of N-Nitrosodimethylamine.

The agency is advising healthcare professionals to closely monitor patients with COVID-19 who are receiving chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine for potential side effects.

The agency sent a warning letter to Chloroquineonline.com for selling unapproved products for the treatment of COVID-19.

The Gavi advance market commitment for COVID-19 vaccines is a new financing instrument aimed at incentivizing vaccine manufacturers to produce sufficient and affordable quantities of COVID-19 vaccines.

The quality control from ZeptoMetrix is formulated with purified intact viral particles that have been chemically modified to render them non-infectious and refrigerator stable.

The extension of the company’s product offerings to include the anti-certolizumab pegol antibodies offers critical reagents for the development of assays for TNF alpha inhibitor biologics and their biosimilars.

The kit consists of a test volume of 10 µL, a range of 0.39–25 ng/mL, a lower limit of detection of 0.03 ng/mL, and average inter- and intra-assay coefficients of variation less than 10%.

The company has expanded its microscopy services with the addition of infrared microspectroscopy and hot stage optical microscopy.

Laboratory automation can reduce the need for in-lab user presence but requires efficient and dependable user-system interface.