Manufacturing

Rising labor costs in China may result in increased competition for higher value services.

Is now the time for multiparticulates to shine as a controlled-release solution?

Technical Note: The authors investigated the variables important for calcium-alginate formation as well as dissolution.

Reports of overlooked controls, dropped pallets, and misplaced documents leave a chill in the air.

After a spate of industrial disasters, the public seeks greater oversight of corporations-so does FDA.

More information may be released to improve public understanding of regulatory policies.

Pfizer Suspends Tanezumab Program; Actavis Appoints CEO; And More.

The effects of counterfeiting are hard to measure, both in human impact and financial loss.

Xavier Parissaux of Roquette explains why the pharma industry's need to reduce organic solvent use is driving innovation in film coatings.

X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) is a versatile, non-destructive technique that reveals detailed information about pharmaceuticals.

With the increasing financial and technical means of counterfeiters, the number of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the supply chain is growing at an alarming rate.

On-dose authentication, such as edible microtags, is a relatively new market that has been quietly developing but has the capability to provide new forms of anti?counterfeiting tools.

Despite the development of covert security technologies, overt solutions are still very important when it comes to product security strategies.

We decided to dedicate this month's issue of PTE to a topic that affects all of our readers; the threat of counterfeit medicines.

In order to combat the threat of counterfeits in Europe, the EU's current anti-counterfeiting directive is being amended.

Counterfeit pharmaceuticals are complex products that can vary from their legitimate counterparts both chemically and physically.

Wyatt Earp, the legendary sheriff of Tombstone used to solve troubles in a simple way: aiming, pulling the trigger and bang! ... problem eliminated! Some manufacturers check the readability of their barcodes in the same way.

To date, the pharmaceutical industry?s primary defence to counterfeiting is to create more sophisticated packaging that makes imitation more difficult, such as packaging involving barcoding and RFID.

Company and People Notes: Valeant and Biovail to Merge; GPhA Names Interim Director; And More.

European pharmaceutical companies are outdoing their US counterparts when it comes to making medicines available to developing countries, according to the Access to Medicine Index, which analyzes and ranks the access to medicine efforts of the world's largest pharma companies.

GSK Acquires Laboratorios Phoenix; Catalent Makes Executive Appointments; And More.

Thermo Fisher to Acquire Fermentas; Pfizer Names Head of R&D; And More.

The US Food and Drug Administration began a partnership with the website Drugs.com to expand access to the agency's consumer-health information.

About one month after the announcement of McNeil Consumer Healthcare's recall of children's liquid pain and allergy medications , the US Food and Drug Administration testified before the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform about the issue.

USP membership meeting prepared the standards-setting body to meet modern challenges.