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...
Pharmaceuticals have become one of the most commonly — and most dangerously — counterfeited products, largely because it is so easy for a criminal to make something that looks right but has no — or inadequate — active ingredients. And while this...
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.
Global excipient company Colorcon has completed a major expansion of capacity at its South Asia production facility in Verna, Goa, India. The company provides film coatings, modified release technologies, functional excipients and tablet design...
The EU directive, as updated in 2005, had many objectives and one of them was to ensure that the agencies harmonised medicines from one county to another. Harmonisation can be seen in several ways but is for the most part divided into two main...
In today’s dynamically changing environment, innovation and cost efficiency in drug development is crucial; costs of R&D are growing aggressively with an average investment of $1.3 billion required to successfully initiate a new drug to market...
Suitable for all Sanofi insulin types, the new and reusable half-unit insulin pen JuniorSTAR is now available in Germany. It provides individual dosage, which can be corrected easily. Furthermore, it has a large display to ensure the correct...
AdvantaPure, the sanitary products division of NewAge Industries, Inc., has introduced patent pending, AdvantaPass wall pass-through technology for transferring critical fluids during pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production.
Biochrom has launched its EZ Nin Reagent, a ready-to-use ninhydrin formulation for use in ion exchange chromatography systems with post-column derivatisation for improved amino acid analysis.
