Pharmaceutical manufacturers depend on advanced blending systems for the injection, dispersion, and mixing of APIs, flavors, and lubricants before tableting, as well as for tablet blending and granulation. These systems use stainless steel contact surfaces and support continuous measuring, blending, and monitoring to maintain consistent product quality. This guide outlines which blender types are best suited for specific pharmaceutical applications.
The PharmTech team focused on its coverage of AAPS PharmSci 360 this week, conducting interviews with experts on a range of topics including formulation platforms, AI, amorphous solid dispersions, and animal studies.
Nitin Kumar Swarnakar, PhD, global application lab manager at BASF, talks about spray drying for drying amorphous solid dispersions and Raman spectroscopy’s role as a quantitative analytical tool.
Aleksandra Zuraw, senior veterinary pathologist at Charles River, discusses how chain of custody, good laboratory practice, quality control, and validation are applied to digital pathology data used in drug development.