The facility will be spread over 100,000 sq. ft (around 15 acre plot) and the company will first begin work on an oral solid unit and thereafter set up manufacturing units for injectables and topicals.
As we waited to see whether or not Pfizer would be successful in its takeover of AstraZeneca, the approach has raised several issues for the pharmaceutical sector, says Lu Rahman.
The latest analytical technology to move to the benchtop is nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. High-end, high-cost instrumentation has dominated the NMR sector for many years, with both the initial purchase price and annual running...
Pharmaceutical products and medical devices are among the most highly regulated and most thoroughly tested products in the world. In the UK, the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency) is responsible for ensuring that all...
When the decentralised procedure (DCP) was implemented in 2005, I was employed by an agency. It was a time of great change in the EU directive and a sense of anticipation accompanied its introduction. Previous to this, there were only two...
In 2011, the anti-piracy consortium Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting Piracy (BASCAP) of the International Chamber of Commerce estimated that the annual cost of counterfeiting and piracy was $775 billion (£463 billion/€561 billion) and is...
The new FE75 rounds off Fette Compacting’s FE series. Users can equip this double-sided rotary press with up to 115 punch stations and produce more than 1.6 million tablets per hour.
