The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
07-Jun-2011 - Analytical technology firm Avacta says it has won its first top ten US pharma customer in collaboration with marketing partner Pall Life Sciences.
06-Jun-2011 - Biomanufacturing technology firm Xcellerex has had a good start to June with R-Pharm and Fujifilm Diosynth signing up as customers.
31-May-2011 - Chinese authorities have arrested hundreds of people accused of manufacturing and selling fake pharmaceuticals in the country’s Zhejiang province.
31-May-2011 - The European Union (EU) formally adopted the falsified medicines directive at the weekend, giving member states 18 months to makes the document's anti-counterfeiting track and trace measures into national law.
30-May-2011 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a list of all the drug manufacturing facilities it has inspected between October 2008 and September 2010 as part of Government transparency efforts.
24-May-2011 - in-PharmaTechnologist presents a round up of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) related warning letters sent by the FDA in recent months.
24-May-2011 - Fears the US FDA is mismanaging oversight of J&J in Puerto Rico are “deeply troubling”, said a US Congressman.
23-May-2011 - A global joint venture has been formed to cut biopharm facility construction times by using modular plant designs.
19-May-2011 - The EDQM has revised its policy on withdrawal of API or excipient certification to clarify the appeal process.
17-May-2011 - Processing technology specialist, GEA Pharma Systems, has introduced the ConsiGma-1, a lab-scale continuous granulator.
17-May-2011 - Syringe maker Unilife saw its revenue fall in the third quarter on a lack of milestone payments and its exit from the contract manufacturing sector.
17-May-2011 - Codexis has completed technology transfer of custom biocatalysts to Teva, leading to their use in pilot plants and commercial scale production.
16-May-2011 - Californian Bioreactor manufacturer, PBS Biotech, has launched its new PBS 3 single-use bioreactor system for the development of biological therapeutics, vaccines and biosimilars.
12-May-2011 - EMD Millipore has opened a training facility in China as an education resource for the country’s rapidly expanding biopharmaceutical manufacturing and development sector.
12-May-2011 - Pharmaceutical intermediate sales helped Codexis in Q1 but the US biocatalysis specialist still posted a net loss for the quarter on higher R&D spending
12-May-2011 - Quality issues slowed first quarter revenue growth at Teva but, with one plant resuming shipping and another awaiting re-inspection, sales are expected to pick up.
12-May-2011 - Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB) has launched a new small-scale bioreactor citing growing biopharmaceutical company demand for scale-up technologies as the key driver for its development.
10-May-2011 - The FDA and USP have expanded their collaboration to ensure the quality of medicines by modernising tests and standards.
09-May-2011 - Carbogen Amcis’s Indian plant has met industrial standards for the containment and handling of highly potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (HPAPI).
09-May-2011 - American Reagent is to resume production at its New York, US plant after investigating cases of glass delamination.
05-May-2011 - Aptuit is manufacturing Phase III materials for Iroko using a nanoformulation technology that produces fast-dissolving particles.
04-May-2011 - Prosonix and Italian partner Sterling have completed the commercialisation of a respiratory active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) using the UK firm’s unique particle engineering technology.
02-May-2011 - Grifols is to sell a facility as part of a US FTC consent agreement that, if approved, will allow it to buy Talecris Biotherapeutics.
02-May-2011 - Scientists at Eindhoven’s University of Technology (TU/e) say their new ‘spinning disc reactor’ increases the safety and efficiency of chemical production processes.
27-Apr-2011 - Teva has resumed production at its Irvine, California plant a year after quality control issues put production on hold.