18-Aug-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com's round-up of developments in pharmaceutical manufacturing features news of SAFC’s new highly potent API plant, ISPE’s Facility of the Year Awards and Israel’s proposed entry into PIC/S.
14-Aug-2008 - Genentech’s special advisory committee has rejected Roche’s $44bn offer for the biotech believing that it “substantially undervalues” the company.
30-Jul-2008 - Ranbaxy’s CEO has confidently asserted that the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) court action will be dropped in the near future and fired another warning shot at the “negative elements” he believes were behind the controversy.
29-Jul-2008 - Patients who took Roche’s antiviral Viracept (nelfinavir) from batches contaminated with ethyl mesilate do not have an increased risk of developing cancer, according to the EMEA.
28-Jul-2008 - Roche’s proposed $44bn acquisition of Genentech is facing some opposition with Wall Street saying the offer undervalues the company, disquiet among the biotech’s employees and shareholders suing the Swiss giant.
28-Jul-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com's round-up of developments in the pharmaceutical manufacturing space features news of a fire at MY Healthcare, Helsinn's FDA approval and a safety award for Wyeth.
24-Jul-2008 - West African states are meeting to devise a plan for cleaning up their tarnished reputations with regards to the flow of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the region.
24-Jul-2008 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has relaxed the regulatory good manufacturing practice (GMP) rules for drugs in early-stage clinical trials in recognition of the different requirements of trial scale and industrial scale manufacture.
24-Jul-2008 - The pace of change at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is showing no sign of slowing, with new CEO Andrew Witty unveiling the company’s new strategic direction with the release of second quarter results.
23-Jul-2008 - Millipore, Purfresh and ESS Technologies have all recently launched products used in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry.
22-Jul-2008 - The heat is being turned up on Actavis Totowa as Federal lawsuits begin to pile up following the Digitek (digoxin) recall.
21-Jul-2008 - The US Food and Administration says that a new project examining the interaction between its review and facilities inspection arms will help improve inter-departmental communication, particularly during pre-approval inspections (PAI)
21-Jul-2008 - US software company Conformia hopes that its new web-based drug development suite will help pharmaceutical firms meet with new quality by design (QbD) and risk management guidelines.
21-Jul-2008 - A man has been sentenced in the US to four years imprisonment for trafficking 38,000 counterfeit Viagra (sildenafil citrate) tablets with a wholesale value of $400,000.
17-Jul-2008 - Ranbaxy has claimed that a pharmaceutical company is making a concerted effort to depress the company's share price by initiating the accusations that the generics manufacturer falsified data to achieve compliance.
15-Jul-2008 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is continuing to evolve in the face of current challenges through the launch of two new initiatives.
15-Jul-2008 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is launching a quality-by-design (QbD) pilot programme for biotechnology submissions.
09-Jul-2008 - The credit crunch is putting the squeeze on start-ups and established companies alike, with numerous firms struggling to obtain the financing that is their lifeblood.
08-Jul-2008 - Poland urgently needs to take some of the red tape out of clinical trial applications if it is to fulfil its potential as a hub for clinical research, according to new market research.
08-Jul-2008 - The new guidelines for how monographs will be revised and elaborated to tackle potentially genotoxic impurities (PGIs) have been published by the European Pharmacopeia Commission.
07-Jul-2008 - Pharmaceutical manufacturers in Vietnam have gained a reprieve after the Ministry of Health (MoH) informed them that those without good manufacturing practice (GMP) certificates can continue production for now.
03-Jul-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com's periodic round-up of developments in the field of pharmaceutical facilities includes news of two environmental fines, MHRA plant approval and a strike at Teva.
02-Jul-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com's periodic round-up of developments in pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment includes Mesa's real time monitoring, cleaning products and Beijer's new operating panel.
01-Jul-2008 - in-PharmaTechnologist.com presents its periodic round-up of personnel changes in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector.
30-Jun-2008 - Parallel traders have hit back at some of the EU Commission's anti-counterfeiting measures and big pharma's support for them.