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Personalised medicine, batch size of ONE, the new challenge to fill-finish?

29 June 2017 | By Wenzel Novak PhD | Market Development Director – Pharma | Optima Machinery Corporation

Wenzel Novak PhD gives some considerations on container, environment, process and automation for small batch sizes in the downstream process of fill-finish…

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Don Clark

22 June 2017 | By

Don Clark is a CSI Manager at Pfizer Global Supply.

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Aptar Pharma extends nasal pump manufacturing capabilities

12 June 2017 | By Niamh Marriott (European Pharmaceutical Review)

Aptar Pharma has announced the installation of manufacturing capacity for its child-resistant and Senior-Friendly Classic Nasal Pump in their Congers, NY site.

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Does the Falsified Medicines Directive lead to a European pack coding guideline?

22 April 2017 | By Johan Verhaeghe (Medicines for Europe)

The Directive on Falsified Medicines (FMD, or Directive 2011/62/EU amending Directive 2001/83/EC) and its supplementing Delegated Regulation (DR 2016/161) aim to improve patient safety by preventing falsified medicines from entering the legal supply chain...

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Strategic aspects of change control for pharmaceutical packaging systems

20 April 2017 | By Dennis Jenke (Baxter Healthcare Corporation)

Plastic materials used in pharmaceutical packaging can interact with the packaged dosage form, causing leachables to accumulate...

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FMD and supply chain security

18 April 2017 | By Jerome Bertin (SecurMed UK)

Over 12 months ago, the European Union delegated regulation that supplements the Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union, starting the countdown to the deadline of 9 February 2019, when most EU member-states, and three non-members currently, are expected to have implemented all…

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Issue #2 2017 – Digital version

13 April 2017 | By European Pharmaceutical Review

Read the free-to-view digital version of the latest issue of European Pharmaceutical Review...

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Packaging In-Depth Focus 2017

13 April 2017 | By European Pharmaceutical Review

FMD and supply chain security; Strategic aspects of change control for pharmaceutical packaging systems; and does the Falsified Medicines Directive lead to a European pack coding guideline?

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ESP & GS1 Ireland Partner to Improve Biopharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting Solutions

28 October 2016 | By ESP

Enterprise System Partners (ESP) has formally signed a partnership agreement with GS1 Ireland to work collaboratively in the development and delivery of the highest anti-counterfeiting solutions based on GS1 standards to the biopharmaceutical manufacturing industry...

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ESP GS1 Ireland Serialisation Industry Readiness Report 2016

28 October 2016 | By ESP

In collaboration with our partners GS1 Ireland, ESP carried out an extensive industry survey to establish the status of the industry in relation to the impending serialisation deadlines, which are facing us in the coming months and years...

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Issue #3 2016 – Digital edition

30 June 2016 | By European Pharmaceutical Review

In this issue: Biosimilars, Regulation, Packaging, Microfluidics, Microbiology, PAT, Antibiotic Resistance, and much more...

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Pharmaceutical Packaging In-Depth Focus 2016

30 June 2016 | By European Pharmaceutical Review

In this Pharmaceutical Packaging In-Depth Focus: End-to-end verification of the medicines supply chain; Understanding the financial implications of the upcoming falsified medicines regulations; Point of view on the evolution of labelling and packaging.

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Pharmapack Europe launches new Start-up Hub

31 May 2016 | By Pharmapack

Pharmapack is a two-day exhibition and conference dedicated to pharmaceutical packaging, drug delivery and affiliated industries...

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PAT for packaging: review of applications for expeditious, nondestructive quality testing

15 April 2014 | By Jose Montenegro-Alvarado, Bradley Diehl, Jean-Maxime Guay, Steve Hammond, Hiwot Isaac, Ben Lyons, Conor McSweeney, Seamus O’Neill, Jean-Sébastien Simard and Joep Timmermans, Pfizer Inc.

This article reviews some emerging applications of Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) for packaging quality testing. Specifically, four commercially-available packaging applications are explored in further detail: Raman spectroscopy for rapid material identification testing of polymeric packaging materials; vision-based elastic deformation for non-destructive blister integrity testing; X-ray monitoring for inline blister fill…

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Innovation showcase at CPhI Awards 2013

25 October 2013 | By Dr Kevin Robinson

It doesn’t seem to matter what the industry is or, indeed, what the event is these days, the same question pops up at regular intervals: where’s the innovation? I’m happy to report that innovation is very much alive and well in the pharmaceutical industry and was on show to the…

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