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Data integrity is critical in Biopharma manufacturing yet is often difficult to achieve due to complex regulatory requirements and legacy data management systems, among the many factors. Furthermore, issues such as data accuracy, completeness and security impact product quality, regulatory compliance and ultimately patient safety. Addressing all these challenges demands…
As companies are adapting to EU GMP guidelines for Annex 1 - Manufacture of Sterile Medicinal products, there have been numerous discussions involving the terms sterile and aseptic, as if they were synonymous. Vanessa Vasadi Figueroa, Chief Microbiologist at VVF Science® and Executive Director of Microbiology & Sterility Assurance at…
Dr Radhakrishna Tirumalai and Karen Zink McCullough reflect on the recent opportunity to update the user requirements document relating to reference endotoxin standards.
Single-temperature incubation has been discussed for a long time in the pharmaceutical industry but only a few sites have implemented this system. Here, Guillaume Pinon, Head of the Microbiology Lab at Servier, discusses the use of single-temperature incubation in an aseptic production facility, outlining the regulatory considerations, strategic approach, challenges…
Botanical drugs, also known as traditional herbal therapies, have long been used, but obtaining regulatory approval for these medicines, or therapies, is convoluted. Often manufacturers will market their botanical drugs as dietary supplements or traditional therapies, designations that require far less regulatory approval than marketisation as a drug. In this…
Balancing safety, efficacy and cost in drug development is challenging. Prodrugs offer potential solutions, but also introduce additional complexities, as Dave Elder explains.
Peak tracking in liquid chromatography (LC) method development can be challenging due to retention variations and co-elution. LabSolutions MD software with LCMS-2050 SQ-MS simplifies peak identification and automates method and sequence creation, enabling efficient development of reliable separation methods.
Specialised microbial testing is key in drug development to mitigate contamination risks, which threaten drug efficacy and patient safety. Bruker's MALDI Biotyper® at MPL, Austria, ensures accurate and robust testing, in a high-throughput workflow, delivering reproducible results.
Ambili Menon, Pharma Quality Control, bioMérieux Inc. addresses the task of microbiological testing for advanced therapeutic medicinal products.
Endotoxin testing continues to evolve alongside the industry’s need for more sustainable methods that reduce ecological impact. Nicola Reid, Associate Director of Endotoxin Products, Charles River Labs, reflects on these developments which are driven by the 3Rs (replacement, reduction and refinement).
Continuous chemical manufacturing technology has been in use for more than 100 years producing high-volume commodity chemicals. However, it was not until the early 2000s that the technology caught the attention of the pharmaceutical industry in a significant way.
It is well known that nature, being a rich source of bioactive natural products, offers up a massive number of candidate drugs for the pharmaceutical industry. David Blanco, Industrial BD and CDMO Director at Suanfarma CDMO, reveals why biofermentation benefits from additional processing to produce a viable drug candidate.
In this Guide to Data integrity articles explore the role of data integrity in CCS, AI and ML as well as biopharma manufacturing.
This in-depth focus features articles on single temperature incubation, endotoxin standards and aseptic connections in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
European Pharmaceutical Review Issue 3 includes articles on microbiology, downstream bioprocessing and drug development. Register your details now to download this exclusive content.
