Packaging and Distribution

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The US Food and Drug Administration issued a new guidance Monday on indexing structured product labeling. The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research and the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research will begin indexing structured product labeling in the product labeling for human drug and biologic products.

New products for sterile filling, quality control, and anticounterfeiting measures gained notice.

The good, the bad, and the ugly about direct-to-consumer advertising.

Our oral pharmaceutical product is packaged by a range of contract packaging companies. Adverse properties of the final packaged product from one particular company indicate that the product shelf life is shorter than it should be. It has been suggested that this could be related to gas filling issues. Is this anything that surface analysis could clarify?

Drug products subjected to degradation because of environmental stresses can be salvaged if proper packaging and protection is provided by sorbents.

Also, GVK BIO and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals form research agreement, Eli Lilly announces changes to management, more...

The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing on whether the US Food and Drug Administration's drug and medical device regulation bar state liability claims.

The European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), the trade association representing European pharmaceutical manufacturers, issued recommendations to the public consultation launched in March by the European Commission's proposed drug anticounterfeiting measures. EFPIA's proposal includes a ban on drug repackaging.

Also, Pfizer to close Indiana "Exubera" facility, executive appointments at Patheon, more...

Also, Quintiles Transnational to acquire Eidetics, ChemAxon appoints Alex Drijver CEO, more...

Also, FDA removes OAI status for Watson's Florida facility, executive management changes as GSK, more...

Scientists are giving up on a preventive vaccine for AIDS, but there are lessons to be learned.

Brief pharmaceutical news items for May 2008.

INTERPHEX 2008 offered visitors novel experiences and many stimulating sessions.

Also, Genzyme to build R&D center in Beijing, Noven Pharmaceuticals appoints Peter C. Brandt president and CEO, more...

Also, GSK expands in Ireland, executive appointments at ProGenTech, more...

Also, Alcon plans to open Singapore facility, Pharmacopeia president and CEO retired, more...

Also, Jubilant Organosys to acquire DRAXIS Health, PPD's Paul Covington to retire, more...

Also, VaxGen and Raven terminate merger agreement, Darren Head appointed CEO of Cytovance, more...

The FDA itself issues a cry for help. Is anybody listening?

Sophisticated replication techniques have made counterfeiting and fraud a serious threat to the pharmaceutical industry.

The annual show provided one-stop shopping for packaging equipment and materials.