July 1st 2025
The partnership was formed in September 2024 in response to increasing demand for aseptic filling technologies and processes.
The LR Method in Critical Areas: Airflow Patterns and the Design of Aseptic Interventions
July 2nd 2004The limitation-of-risks (LR) method can be used as an engineering tool in risk assessment work for the identification, minimization, and evaluation of potential airborne risks, and for the identification of adequate monitoring points.
The Future of Compaction Pharmaceutical Tableting in the Twenty-First Century
June 1st 2004Currently, high-production rates and continuous production processes favor existing tableting technologies. However, if tablet development becomes rate-limiting in the future, alternative technologies may prove attractive.
Monitoring Airborne Micro-organisms in Blow-Fill-Seal Technology
June 1st 2004The article describes the basic principles of blow-fill-seal (BFS) technology together with the advantages it offers. Although BFS technology is an ideal process for aseptic filling of liquid pharmaceutical products there is still a risk of contaminating the product inside the filling area. This, together with regulatory requirements for the microbiological control of critical areas in pharmaceutical production, makes microbiological monitoring a necessity.
What Does Drug Packaging Tell Us About its Contents?
June 1st 2004The content and quality of information supplied with drug products are among the most specifically defined areas associated with the products for sale. For patient or drug user, the information is presented in patient information leaflets (PILs) placed in the package. The readability testing of PILs is an important stage in the process of making the texts contained in the summary of product characteristics comprehensible to users, as this article discusses.
Characterization of the Performance of Bin Blenders Part 1 of 3: Methodology
May 2nd 2004In this series of articles, bin blender performance is comprehensively reviewed using both free-flowing and cohesive mixtures. In part 1, an introduction to tools and techniques is presented, followed by an examination of parameter effects, mixing mechanisms, and the effects of cohesion on mixing.
Validation and Compliance: Software Systems Prepare Manufacturers for Com(PAT)ibility
May 2nd 2004From data acquisition to enterprise resource planning, software systems operating at all levels of pharmaceutical manufacturing prepare for the seemingly inevitable implementation of process anlytical technology.
Use of Artificial Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms - Experiences from a Tablet Formulation
May 1st 2004This article describes the formulation of a tablet for a specific purpose, primarily using fractional or full factorial designs. The formulation work generated a matrix that was processed by two software packages based on neural networks. When the dataset was divided into smaller subsets, the agreement between the predicted and observed tablet properties of the optimized formulations was reasonable.