Analytics

New simulation software improves modeling for chemists and materials scientists.

USP announced the approval of General Notices section 5.60.30 Elemental Impurities in USP Drug Products and Dietary Supplements with an official date of Dec. 1, 2015.

NMR analysis provides crucial structural information of synthesized glycans while LC-MS/MS is ideal for quantitation of free sugars in biological matrices.

Antibody fragments pose unique challenges in terms of recovery, purification, and formulation.

Roger Hayes of MPI Research discusses highly potent drug development.

This article takes a statistical look at the calibration requirements for a UV spectrometer.

PIC/S reviews deficiencies found during inspections of API manufacturing facilities, harmonizes GMP standards, and provides training for inspectors worldwide.

Analytical tests, correlated with statistical techniques, are used to predict material behavior.

Covance Inc. and Pathoquest have announced a collaboration to provide next-generation sequencing (NGS) based biosafety assessments to detect and identify viral contaminants within biologic compounds.

As the pharmaceutical industry prepares for changes to compendial and regulatory standards for elemental impurity analysis, QA/QC and laboratory scientists are tasked with adapting their operations to include data management, analysis, and reporting based on inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (ICP–MS).

Mass detection at the push of a button could change the way many laboratories carry out their chromatographic analysis.

Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and several other pharmaceutical companies are participating in the development of automated sampling technology and associated software that improve process control and reduce development times in biopharmaceutical manufacturing.

The Waters ACQUITY QDa Detector is a mass detector designed to bring high-quality, mass spectral data to chromatographic separations.

LCMS-8050 Mass Spectrometer Increases Quality Analysis

The authors evaluated a variety of materials of construction (MOCs) and found that visible residue limits (VRLs) were higher on some MOCs than on stainless steel. The optimal viewing conditions were dependent on the MOC and the viewing background. The risk of a cleaning failure due to visual failure for different MOCs can be mitigated or eliminated using complementary cleaning validation studies.

Software Improves Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Ingredients

The authors discuss a strategy for developing a risk-based approach for testing of elemental impurities in leachable studies.

The characteristics of tableted solid dosage drugs often depend on the granulation process, so selecting the most appropriate granulation technique and monitoring the process are crucial

FDA updates guidance to reflect advances in technology.

Industry experts discuss the requirements and challenges involved in getting a biosimilar product from bench to launch.

How good is a reportable value?

FDA's draft guidance provides answers to questions received on FDA's abbreviated new drug application stability guidance.

Conventional cell-imaging systems that provide high quality data can be very expensive and complex to use. New systems from Biotek Instruments are designed to overcome these issues.

A proposed new guideline provides a global policy for limiting metal impurities qualitatively and quantitatively in drug products and ingredients.

Extensive comparability testing is required to ensure that biosimilars have comparable profiles to their reference products.

The authors examine alternative solvents for extractables and leachables screening evaluation of process components that provide extraction equivalence and do not interfere chromatographically.

Editor's Pick's of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Innovations: The latest in analytical instrumentation including mass spectrometers, calorimeters, and viscometers.

The author describes how liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry works and explains some of its advantages and disadvantages, particularly compared to high-performance liquid chromatography.

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Michael Rooney, director, bioanalytical development at Jazz Pharmaceuticals, provides an overview of a life cycle strategy for analytical methods development, the need for standards and guidance documents, and therole Quality by Design can play in method development.