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November 5, 2015
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FDA Releases Liposome Drug Product Guidance
Sanofi Recalls Auvi-Q Due to Dosage Concerns
Catalent Expands Cold-Chain Capacity

Top Stories

FDA Extends Compliance Dates for Drug Dispensers

Citing compliance issues, FDA extends deadline for product tracing information requirements for dispensers to March 1, 2016.
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GEA Collaborates with GSK on POD-Based Mini-Factories

GEA has entered into a collaboration with GSK to further develop self-contained, POD-based mini-factories for the manufacture of pharmaceutical oral solid dosage forms.
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Industry News

IPEC-America Suggests Improvements to FDA’s Inactive Ingredients Database

Representatives of the excipients industry responded to FDA’s request with new ways to make the IID more relevant and useful.
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Pierre Fabre Joins IQ Consortium

The IQ Consortium is an organization that brings together pharma and biotech companies and facilitates partnerships between members.
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Supplier News

Catalent Expands Cold-Chain Capacity at Shanghai Facility

Catalent Pharma Solutions announced plans to quadruple the cold-chain capacity at its existing clinical supply storage and distribution facility in Shanghai, China.
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Bespak Launches New Auto-Injector at PDA Europe

The new Syrina 2.25 is a compact auto-injector that uses the standard 2.25 mL prefilled syringe, based on Bespak’s proprietary VapourSoft technology.
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The NP-400 is an economical, heavy-duty, medium output rotary tablet press designed, engineered and manufactured in the United States. Capable of running 24/7, the NP-400 can produce up to 180,000 tablets per hour. This single footprint press continuously monitors tablet pre-compression, main compression forces and tablet ejection force. Tablet take off force, press temperature and humidity monitoring are also available. Automatic lubrication systems are standard.
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Bio/Pharma News

ProBioGen and Bio Farma Plan Indonesian Production of Trastuzumab

ProBioGen plans to develop and scale-up production of a biosimilar to the mAb cancer drug trastuzumab and will transfer the commercial manufacturing process to Indonesia’s government-owned Bio Farma.
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Sanofi Recalls Auvi-Q Due to Dosage Concerns

The company is voluntarily recalling the epinephrine injection, USP because of potential inaccurate dosage delivery.
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Regulatory News

EU's New Telematics Strategy for the Regulation of Medicines

The scheme aims to ensure that EMA and licensing authorities of EU member states will use the same IT system, based on a single data standard.
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FDA Releases Liposome Drug Product Guidance

The agency issued a draft guidance document on the requirements for submission of applications for liposome drug products.
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FEATURED TOPICS

INGREDIENTS

Advances in Fluorination Chemistry for API Synthesis

Safer solid reagents and new coupling chemistry are important developments.
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REGULATIONS

Biosimilar Development Continues to Challenge FDA and Industry

Despite considerable investment by biotech manufacturers in developing competitive biologics for the US market, gaining FDA approval of these products has turned out to be a slow and complex process.
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TROUBLESHOOTING

Identifying Powder Properties that Define Process Performance

Multi-faceted powder characterization can be used to correlate powder properties and process performance to support equipment selection, optimization, and troubleshooting.
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OUTSOURCING

Small-Molecule API CMOs Are Thriving

Despite emergence of biologics, small-molecule APIs benefit from industry growth.
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REFERENCE BOOKS

Pharmaceutical Technology Solid Dosage Combo

This three-volume set of comprehensive pharmacology reference guides cover solid-dosage form principles such as oral solid-dosage forms, powders, mixing and blending, excipients, tableting, and coating. Stay current with compressed tablet manufacturing processes, solid dosage processing equipment, tablet-pressing processes, and pharmaceutical industry trends in oral solid dosage manufacturing and solid dosage form development.
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Bioprocessing and Sterile Manufacturing 2015 eBook

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