20-Oct-2011 - Carbogen Amcis has signed a strategic deal with formulations specialist Polymun Scientific in a agreement designed to support the development of its high potency manufacturing business.
20-Oct-2011 - Sri Lanka is setting up a 48 acre pharma manufacturing industrial zone to boost local production.
20-Oct-2011 - Avantor is to offer tamper-evident seals on all its pharma raw material and excipient containers by the end of the year.
19-Oct-2011 - The FDA has sent GSK a GMP warning letter after finding failings in steps to prevent microbiological contamination at a UK site.
19-Oct-2011 - Canadian pharma manufacturers’ plan to stop drug shortages by sharing information fails to tackle underlying concerns, an analyst said.
18-Oct-2011 - Granules India says higher demand for APIs and pharmaceutical intermediates combined with manufacturing productivity gains helped drive quarterly growth.
17-Oct-2011 - Liberalisation of Indian regulations in the early 90s caused a surge in manufacturing capacity but a dip in efficiency, research claims.
13-Oct-2011 - The EMA may apply proposed porcine trypsin guidelines to existing products, such as a GSK vaccine, to cut viral contamination.
12-Oct-2011 - The US EPA plans to fine API manufacturer Rhode Technologies for alleged hazardous waste failings at its plant.
12-Oct-2011 - The FDA has published final guidance on the use of excipients as anti-counterfeiting tools in solid oral dosage forms.
11-Oct-2011 - The United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) has forged closer ties with Russian regulators to help tackle substandard pharmaceuticals and harmonize quality standards.
11-Oct-2011 - AstraZeneca has broken ground on a $200m (€147m) manufacturing facility in China to meet soaring demand in the country.
11-Oct-2011 - Sanofi Pasteur says it will regain lost ground in India through its new state-of-the-art vaccine manufacturing plant.
11-Oct-2011 - The Irish Medicines Board (IMB) has published guidance for cold-chain storage and transport of APIs and finished products.
10-Oct-2011 - Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) wants Brazil to streamline its validation process for the API benznidazole after global stocks of the Chagas disease treatment drop to critical levels.
10-Oct-2011 - iBio is expanding use of its green plant technology to biosimilar mAbs after producing rituximab using the system.
06-Oct-2011 - The price of melanoma therapy could soon be slashed thanks to a new delivery system developed by US firm OncoSec.
06-Oct-2011 - Vetter says it will reduce API wastage through its new US production facility for the filling of syringes, cartridges and vials.
06-Oct-2011 - Avacta has allied with Pall to offer biopharm manufacturers in Singapore and South Korea tools to assess formulation viability.
05-Oct-2011 - Active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturer ScinoPharm has gone public in a bid to raise funds for its upcoming expansions.
05-Oct-2011 - Solvias and RohnerChem have set up a research and manufacturing services partnership designed to accelerate the production, scale-up and commercialisation of APIs.
05-Oct-2011 - The FDA has awarded a $35m (€26m) grant to make US drug production less expensive and reverse the offshoring trend.
04-Oct-2011 - Smoking cessation drugmaker Sopharma has opened its new manufacturing plant in the Serbian capital Belgrade.
03-Oct-2011 - CDMO Aesica is to add manufacturing capacity in Asia and the US following a cash injection from private equity firm Silverfleet Capital.
03-Oct-2011 - SAFC will extend its focus on high potency production through a number of new investments.