The Challenge of Change - Managing Excipients Control
Colorcon
23-Mar-2011 - Finesse Solutions has added off-line data processing modules to its bioprocess parameter control software, TruBio DV.
22-Mar-2011 - Copley Scientific, the Nottingham, UK-based lab equipment manufacturer, has confirmed delivery of eight tablet dissolution testers to contract research organisation (CRO), Melbourn Scientific.
21-Mar-2011 - Genzyme will be unable to meet demand for Thyrogen until July 2011 because of a manufacturing issue.
16-Mar-2011 - Johnson & Johnson, the multinational healthcare giant, has announced it has finalised the terms of a consent decree with the FDA over its stricken McNeil PPC manufacturing plants.
16-Mar-2011 - Life sciences drove Pall’s growth in the second quarter of fiscal 2011, with sales to the biopharmaceuticals sector making the biggest gains.
15-Mar-2011 - GEA Lyophil has won US FDA approval for a new gas-based steralistion technology for pharmaceutical freeze drying.
15-Mar-2011 - German machine tool maker Fette Compacting has set up a tablet compression and flowability testing centre in Goa, India.
10-Mar-2011 - A new study suggests pressurised carbon dioxide can accelerate crystalisation during drug production, and potentially save manufacturers time and money.
09-Mar-2011 - US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has recalled 384,000 of its insulin cartridges on concerns the products could cause serious health problems for diabetics.
08-Mar-2011 - GEA Pharma Systems, the German drug processing equipment manufacturer, has signed a representation agreement with Swedish hi-tech firm Christian Berner Tech Trade.
03-Mar-2011 - The WHO expects global vaccine supplies will benefit significantly after it approved the Chinese SFDA regulatory system.
03-Mar-2011 - The GAO has again included the FDA in its high-risk series because of shortcomings in the oversight of overseas manufacturing facilities.
03-Mar-2011 - Agilent Technolgies, the Santa Clara, US-based scientific instrument manufacturer, has acquired instrument manufacturer and contract research organisation (CRO), Biocius Life Sciences, for an undisclosed amount.
02-Mar-2011 - US FDA inspectors have arrived at Perrigo’s Allegan, Michigan, US facility to re-inspect it as part of its follow-up to a warning letter last year.
28-Feb-2011 - The EU has revised legislation on use of computerised systems in pharma manufacturing to bring it up-to-date.
24-Feb-2011 - Sanofi-aventis has received an FDA warning letter after the agency identified violations of cGMP at its Frankfurt am Main, Germany plant.
24-Feb-2011 - A formal investigation to identify individuals responsible for the 2008 heparin-contamination has been launched by a US House panel.
17-Feb-2011 - Sanofi Aventis’ CEO, Chris Veibacher, said the French drugmaker may look at providing some fill/finish capacity for Genzyme in the long term.
17-Feb-2011 - Pfizer’s Capsugel unit has bought an injection molding technology that, it believes, will expand its capsule filling business into new “high value segments.”
17-Feb-2011 - The European Parliament has approved the falsified medicines directive and described it as a “huge step” in efforts to protect patients.
15-Feb-2011 - Valutek hopes new reusable cleanroom glove will help pharma researchers wave goodbye to laboratory discomfort.
14-Feb-2011 - Variation between drug batches in developing countries poses “serious clinical implications” and should be tackled by regulators.
09-Feb-2011 - Novasep and instrAction have partnered to develop improved methods for the production of taxane-based active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) citing growing demand for cancer treatments as key driver.
09-Feb-2011 - The United States Pharmacopeoia (USP) will help regulators in sub-Saharan Africa ensure drug quality in a new scheme designed to boost testing and analysis capacity.
08-Feb-2011 - The EMA has revised its EudraGMP database to give the public more information on GMP inspections.