Alfa hopes to make industrial chemistry an ART
11-Jun-2009 - Sweden’s Alfa Laval says ART PR49, its combined chemical reactor and heat transfer plate,...
FDA revises ICH Q8 guidance
10-Jun-2009 - The FDA has revised its guidance on ICH Q8, adding an annex that clarifies the...
Syntagon “cuts out middlemen” with China office
09-Jun-2009 - Swedish CRO Syntagon has set up an office in Shanghai, China to forge stronger...
Corden cuts manufacturing in Cork
08-Jun-2009 - Ireland’s API manufacturing sector suffered a blow on Friday with Corden Pharmachem’s announcement that...
SAFC partners to improve pharma raw material supply
02-Jun-2009 - SAFC is seeking to improve its large-scale supply of pharma raw materials through a...
Sanofi receives H1N1 strain and gears up for production
28-May-2009 - Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines unit of French drug major Sanofi Aventis, has received a...
Harsh counterfeiting sentences could harm LDCs
27-May-2009 - Stiffer penalties for counterfeiters could be counterproductive in less developed countries (LDC) and “entrench...
Wacker expands cyclodextrin capacity
27-May-2009 - Wacker has brought its expanded cyclodextrin facility online following its $21m (€15m) expansion, which...
Minakem adds EU API capacity to compete with Asia
20-May-2009 - Fine chemicals firm Minakem believes that manufacturing capacity added by its newly acquired API...
Mutiple parameters are key to powder analysis, says Freeman
18-May-2009 - Freeman Technologies, which showcased its FT4 Rheometer at Achema in Frankfurt, Germany, last week,...
New suite operational at Roche’s Carolina API plant
12-May-2009 - A new $60m (€43m) manufacturing suite is operational at the South Carolina, US plant...
First USP OK for rHAs a "significant advantage", says Novozymes
04-May-2009 - Two recombinant human albumins made by Novozymes' biopharma division have become the first to comply...
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Budenheim OKed to make phosphates for pharma
04-May-2009 - German industrial phosphate maker Budenheim has been certified to produce calcium phosphates as pharmaceutical...
Novozymes begins work on Chinese bHA plant
28-Apr-2009 - Novozymes Biopharma is building a new Bacillus-based hyaluronic acid (bHA) production facility in China...
Hovione shows off Irish API plant
23-Apr-2009 - API maker Hovione’s manufacturing facility in Cork, Ireland was unveiled at an opening ceremony...
South Korea pulls 1,000 asbestos tainted drugs from shelves
09-Apr-2009 - South Korean drug regulators have ordered the recall of 1,222 medical products and pharmaceuticals...
Time of rapid change in fine chemicals supply, says SAFC
07-Apr-2009 - Tom Beil, SAFC’s VP of Quality and Regulatory affairs, whose talk on fine chemicals supply...
Interactive map of global counterfeiting events in Q1
06-Apr-2009 - The counterfeiting threat is explored in our interactive map, which details the legislation, seizures,...
Pharming economical for HIV microbicide production; study
02-Apr-2009 - Researchers have used plants from the tobacco family as a large-scale, cost-effective method of...
Indian plants offer new source for Tamiflu precursor
30-Mar-2009 - Researchers believe they have found “more promising” sources of shikimic acid, a precursor in...
Global Federation will “speak as one”, says IPEC Europe chair
26-Mar-2009 - The International Pharmaceutical Excipient Council (IPEC) has unveiled plans to set up a worldwide...
IPECs may emerge in Latin America, India
16-Mar-2009 - The International Pharmaceutical Excipients Council (IPEC) – currently represented by divisions in Europe, the...
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Stemedica seeks Cali OK for stem cell plant
26-Feb-2009 - Stemedica Cell Technologies is seeking approval from the California Department of Health to begin...
Ignore a form 483? Not wise say FDA
26-Feb-2009 - It is not compulsory to respond to form 483s detailing deficiencies at a facility...
API monograph pilot gains momentum
25-Feb-2009 - An active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) pilot project, implemented by the Pharmacopoeial Discussion Group (PDG)...
