Manufacturing

Facility in Germany provides space for evaluating continuous pharmaceutical processing equipment.

Excipients for lowering formulation costs and improving lipid-based formulations and the use of melt-spray-congeal microsphere sachet technology for targeted controlled release attract attention at the 2013 American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting.

Rail-Mounted Fluid Bed Dryers Allow Cleaning Access

Siegfried Schmitt, principal consultant at PAREXEL, discusses the state of drug manufacturing in India.

The European Union is strengthening its pioneering role in the regulation of biosimilars by further developing the basic rules for determining the levels of compatibility for this group of drugs. There are, however, some key issues that are not easy to resolve, as evident in a recent workshop on biosimilars organized by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

Industry experts discuss the application, challenges, and benefits of a quality-by-design approach to sterile manufacturing.

New policies and products seek to maintain access to pain medicines while curbing rampant abuse.

Low Feed Rate Feeder Designed for Pharmaceutical Processes

Tablet Tooling Coating Reduces Formulation Sticking

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

Bioreactor Functions as Perfusion Mimic

Drug Quality and Security Act gives FDA authority over compounding pharmacies.

The international “Fight the Fakes” campaign will raise awareness about the dangers of counterfeit medicines.

In this sponsored podcast, Adam Stuart, Senior Design Engineer at 3M Drug Delivery Systems, discusses the role of dose counters for metered dose inhalers and the technical challenges companies can face when adding this feature to their inhaler products.

European Medicines Agency announces the launch of the Accelerated development of vaccine benefit-risk collaboration in Europe (ADVANCE) project.

GlaxoSmithKline plans to invest nearly $41 million to expand its operations at its facility in Montrose, the United Kingdom.

Merck KGaA plans to build a new biomanufacturing facility in Nantong, China.

The bacterial meningitis outbreak at Princeton University in recent weeks has raised questions about why there is no vaccine in the United States to prevent this deadly disease, when such a therapy is approved in Europe and Australia.

John J. Castellani, President and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America of the PhRMA Research & Hope awards and creating an ecosystem for promoting new vaccine development

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An operational-excellence initiative increased collaboration between operations and quality personnel to address human-error-caused deviations.

New facility designs enable flexible, multiproduct production.

The Drug Quality and Security Act creates national standards for serialization of drug products to protect against counterfeiting.

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.

Ei Lilly announces investments in insulin manufacturing capacity for its sites in Indianapolis, Puerto Rico, France, and China.