The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
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20-Mar-2007 - US contract manufacturer Cook Pharmica has won an industry award for its biopharmaceutical facility.
16-Mar-2007 - The US District Court of Delaware returned a verdict in favour of Affymetrix in the first stage of its patent infringement case against Illumina.
16-Mar-2007 - A new mass spectrometer (MS) that is claimed will provide proteomics researchers with far more information than ever before, in dramatically reduced time frames, is now available.
16-Mar-2007 - A new licensing deal will allow Millipore to supply researchers with a commercial source of neural stem cells for the first time.
16-Mar-2007 - A new laboratory equipment trade show in London has been announced filling the gap in the UK's trade exhibition landscape.
15-Mar-2007 - The New Jersey facility of Icelandic firm Actavis has been slapped with a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following inspections that revealed a concerning lack of quality control measures.
14-Mar-2007 - US Oncology has implemented an electronic pedigree system to protect its cancer drug distribution system, bringing it firmly in line with federal drug pedigree requirements and ensuring a more secure supply chain for the company.
14-Mar-2007 - After getting through a difficult 2006, separation technology specialist Whatman has made it through to the end of the year, reporting preliminary annual financial results and looking towards a more prosperous 2007.
14-Mar-2007 - MDS has reported a lower first-quarter profit for its Pharma Services unit as a result of a regulatory probe of its operations.
14-Mar-2007 - Hospira's US injectables contract manufacturing unit reported a sales jump of 32 per cent to $43.4m (€33m), however, this stellar performance is not indicative of the strength of the unit or the performance expected to follow this year.
14-Mar-2007 - Biotech company Grifols has announced the expansion of its US manufacturing capacity which will allow it to increase the production of its haemophilia therapies.
13-Mar-2007 - A twist on an existing security technology will use enhanced mobile phones to help establish the authenticity of pharmaceutical products in developing countries.
09-Mar-2007 - The editors and reporters pick of the new product launches made at this year's Pittcon, held last week in Chicago, Illinois.
09-Mar-2007 - The Pittcon 2007 gold-award winning mass spectrometer allows the differentiation of sample ions not only by charge and mass but also by size and shape.
08-Mar-2007 - A Swiss firm is offering the first process risk management and safety certification for pharma companies working with nanoparticles and technologies.
08-Mar-2007 - A two-year-old lab equipment company has beaten off competition from more established rivals to scoop an award for its new UV detector.
07-Mar-2007 - UK drug goliath GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is ramping up drug production at its Polish site as it prepares to more than double the number of markets the plant will supply.
06-Mar-2007 - Eisai has today begun building a £100m (€147m) European headquarters in the UK which will include a new pharmaceutical manufacturing facility - its first production plant in Europe.
05-Mar-2007 - Bayer Healthcare last week confirmed that 6,100 jobs will be cut in the reshuffle following Bayer's takeover of Schering announced last year.
02-Mar-2007 - Agilent looks to maintain its strong market presence in the gas chromatography (GC) sector with the launch of two new instruments.
02-Mar-2007 - The market for molecular diagnostics is predicted to grow to over $92.1bn (€70m) by 2016, a significant jump from $17.9bn in 2006.
01-Mar-2007 - Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staffing and timetabling problems have delayed the re-inspection of Wyeth's Puerto Rico site, the company said this week.
28-Feb-2007 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Baxter Healthcare the go ahead for a modified version of the company's Colleague volumetric infusion pump that was the subject of FDA recalls and seizures in 2005 following patient deaths and injuries.
28-Feb-2007 - A technology designed to preserve living cells for longer could significantly reduce the number of animals used in medical research, according to its creators Abcellute.
28-Feb-2007 - UK firms Melbourn Scientific and Copley Scientific have agreed to collaborate on developing novel methods of testing the force of nasal sprays and metered-dose inhalers (MDIs).