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Study monitors particles and falling bacteria in biosafety cabinets
The type of clothing worn in aseptic manufacturing areas may impact the number of particle and airborne bacteria detected in biosafety cabinets.
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Utilising rapid UHPLC for tablet QC analysis
The proposed UHPLC method is suitable for routine quantitative analysis of teneligliptin and pioglitazone, a paper reports.
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Widening adoption of animal-free reagents for endotoxin testing
If the proposed USP Chapter < 86 > on using non-animal derived reagents is approved, it will be published for early adoption in November 2024, USP states.
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Webinar: How Pfizer utilises Enzyme Indicator technology for bio-decontamination validation
Melanie Eggers is a Sterilisation Validation Project Support Engineer at Pfizer Belgium. In this webinar, she explains how Pfizer has adopted Enzyme Indicator (EI) technology for its VHP bio-decontamination procedures. She outlines the differences in EIs compared to more traditional Biological Indicators and the way in which Pfizer utilises the…
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Analysis of corticosteroid formulations in metered dose inhalers
The spectrophotometric-based method offers rapid and reliable analysis of formoterol and beclomethasone formulations in metered dose inhalers, according to research.
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Monitoring pharmaceuticals in the environment
Andreas Häner, an environmental risk assessor at Roche in Group Safety, Security, Health & Environmental protection (SHE), speaks to EPR about how the pharmaceutical industry monitors manufacturing emissions that can impact local environments.
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Using mass spectrometry to improve quality and safety of levothyroxine
A study investigating levothyroxine has reported a new non-targeted analytical approach for pharmaceutical quality control analysis.
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Seasonal variation of microbial contamination in pharmaceutical cleanrooms
With the outdoor environment being a primary contamination source in the pharmaceutical cleanroom, measures like good manufacturing practices (GMP) is key to reduce this risk, a paper asserts.
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Unique testing regimen could prevent nuclease contamination
Biannual routine testing in the laboratory reduces both the likelihood of nuclease contamination occurrence and its impact, a study suggests.
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EP monographs allow rFC for water testing
As of 1 April, two European Pharmacopoeia monographs allow the use of rFC to test for bacterial endotoxins in pharmaceutical waters.
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Endotoxin testing: the international regulatory landscape
In this extract from EPR’s Pharma Horizon’s report, Evelyn Der, Lindsey Silva and Carmen Marín Delgado de Robles from Roche Group discuss the regulatory guidelines for bacterial endotoxin testing and the move towards adoption of recombinant methods.
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Pharmaceutical environmental monitoring market to value $38.1b by 2030
Technological solutions such as real-time monitoring could help expand the pharmaceutical environmental monitoring market up to the next decade, research says.
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Quality risk management in radiopharmaceutical production
A quality risk assessment of a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) radiopharmaceutical production site found that dispensing was the most critical phase of the process.
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Drug safety driving pyrogen testing market expansion
A lack of standardised testing methods and subsequent delayed product approvals is limiting growth of the pyrogen testing market, according to a report.
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