FDA Urges Greater Focus on Contractor Quality
Increased manufacturer outsourcing requires clear policies and written agreements with CMOs.

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EU Battles Medicine Shortages
European governments are under pressure to take regulatory action, but solving the problem of medicine shortages is not as straightforward as it seems.

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Regulatory Roundup
Compounding, tracking legislation moves forward

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Intertek Acquires Melbourn
The acquisition of Melbourn extends Intertek's offering to include formulation, product development and characterisation of orally inhaled and intranasal products amongst others.

Novartis and Biological E Collaborate on Delivering Affordable Vaccines
Novartis and Biological E have entered into an agreement that aims to deliver affordable and accessible vaccines for typhoid and paratyphoid A fevers to developing countries.

Parenteral Drug Association Releases New Report on Manual Aseptic Processes
Report outlines recommended practices for control and evaluation of operations.

Immunocore Collaborates with GlaxoSmithKline on T-Cell Receptor Technology
Research will focus on cancer and viral disease targets not addressable using antibody-based technologies.

Literature Database for Discrete Element Method Simulation Available Online
Resource will foster innovation in DEM simulation for process industries.

Azaya Launches New CDMO
Parexo Labs, a division of Azaya, launches as a new CDMO with an emphasis on nanotechnology and liposomal manufacturing.

Base4 and Hitachi High-Tech Collaborate on Developing Novel Nanopore DNA-Sequencing System
The core DNA-sequencing technology is based on the concept of passing a single strand of DNA through a nanometer-scale pore and reading out the sequence directly as it does so.