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8 September 2015

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Pfizer Completes Acquisition of Hospira

Pfizer closes the acquisition of Hospira, adding sterile injectables business to portfolio.
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Sartorius Stedim Biotech to Supply Membrane Adsorber Technologies to GE Healthcare

Under the terms of the agreement, Sartorius Stedim Biotech will manufacture membrane adsorber technologies for GE, which will be marketed as part of GE's ReadyToProcess product offerings.
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Biosimilars and Follow-on-Biologics Market to Hit $35 Billion Globally by 2020

Growth is said to be driven by the deeper penetration of biosimilars in developed and emerging markets as a result of clearer regulatory pathways.
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Industry News

USP Partners with USAID to Secure Supply Chain

UPS joins the Global Health Supply Chain Technical Assistance program to help secure the drug supply chain.
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Knowledge-Sharing and Networking at the CPhI Pre-Connect Congress

The Pre-Connect Congress will explore pharma industry trends, such as mergers and acquisitions, the biologics market outlook, and innovation in drug delivery among others.
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Supplier News

Microscan Acquires Label Vision Systems

Label Vision Systems (LVS) will be fully integrated into Microscan and the LVS name will become a brand within Microscan's barcode label verification portfolio.
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Mayne Pharma to Invest $65m in Manufacturing Expansion

Mayne Pharma plans to double oral-dose manufacturing space and expand contract services.
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Bio/Pharma News

FDA Approves Amgen's PCSK9 Inhibitor Repatha

The drug was the first PCSK9 inhibitor approved in Europe and the second approved in the US.
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Novo Nordisk Unveils Plans to Boost Manufacturing Capacity in North Carolina and Denmark

Novo Nordisk plans to invest approximately $2 billion over the next five years in new production facilities in Clayton, North Carolina, US and Måløv, Denmark. The facilities are expected to be operational during 2020.
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Regulatory News

EMA's Medical Literature Monitoring Begins

The agency started the full operation of its medical literature monitoring on Sept. 1, 2015.
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FDA Releases Guidance on Biosimilar Nomenclature, Requests Comments on Interchangeable Product Naming

In a new draft guidance, FDA proposes the use of a nonproprietary name plus a four-letter suffix to identify all biologic products, both new and old.
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FEATURED TOPICS

QUALITY

Black Specks in Tablet Stability Samples

A study of root cause in stability samples suggests the need for tighter control of the sodium lauryl sulfate manufacturing processes.
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SUPPLY CHAIN

Serialization: Are You Prepared? Why This Time is Different

Sponsors and contract partners alike should not assume that upcoming US federal deadlines will be as elastic as California's were.
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OUTSOURCING

A Voice of Their Own

Contract development and manufacturing organizations join forces to address legislative, regulatory, and business concerns in the Pharma & Biopharma Outsourcing Association.
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FORMULATION

Recovering the Value of Repurposed Drugs

Currently, pharma has only scratched the surface of the potential value of repurposing drugs, says consultant Hermann Mucke. Contract service partners are playing a more prominent role, but could play an even larger one in these efforts.
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Product/Service Profiles

ABITEC Corporation

CAPMUL® — Where Formulation Begins™
ABITEC's CAPMUL bioavailability enhancers are medium-chain mono- and di-glycerides and propylene glycol esters. These functional lipid excipients act as solubilizers and emulsifiers in oral, topical, transdermal, and parenteral drug delivery systems.
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EtQ

The Risk and Compliance Paradigm: Risk Management's Impact on QMS
Risk Management is everywhere, and is not some lofty strategic element that is limited to top floor suits making enterprise-wide decisions. Risk Management is becoming an integral part of the compliance process. There are many ways to look at Risk, and each industry has developed different risk based tools to suit their specific business needs.
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TSI Incorporated

BioTrak™ Real-Time Viable Particle Counter for immediate notification of microbial excursions
Detecting changes in levels of airborne microbiological contamination in real time in all areas of a life science manufacturing facility is now a reality. Instruments such as TSI's BioTrak™ Real-Time Viable Particle Counter facilitate proactive Quality Assurance based approaches.
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Event Profile

Pharma EXPO

Winning Solutions for the Entire Pharmaceutical Lifecycle
Pharma EXPO brings together solutions designed to give pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, medical device and nutraceutical companies like yours a competitive edge. Plus, the co-location with PACK EXPO Las Vegas provides the opportunity to explore processing and packaging ideas from all other industries.
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Webcasts

Capsule Filling: Manufacturing Efficiency and the Added Value of Technical Service

On Demand

As challenging new formulations are developed, how prepared is your team to optimize the formulation performance in encapsulation? This webinar will provide insight into improving productivity in the use of capsules for pharmaceutical products for both the formulator and supply chain. Capsule filling technologies, dosing options, excipients, capsule selection, and other factors will be discussed. An example from the field will illustrate encapsulation practices.
Sponsored by Capsugel


Strategies to Accelerate Early Phase Clinical Trials

On Demand
Learn about adaptive clinical trials, patient recruitment strategies, and advanced biomarker analysis tools designed that can accelerate drug development and clinical testing processes.
Sponsored by SGS


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PharmTech TV

Needlestick Prevention

Pain in the (Supply) Chain Survey Part 1

Pain in the (Supply) Chain Survey Part 2

Cross-Contamination Risk in Manufacturing of Highly Potent Drugs

Events

PDA/FDA Meeting 2015

September 28–30, 2015 | Washington, DC, USA

PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2015

September 28–30, 2015 | Las Vegas, NV, USA

2015 AAPS Annual Meeting

October 25–29, 2015 | Orlando, FL, USA


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REFERENCE LIBRARY

Pharmaceutical Technology presents its Process Analytical Technology resource guide combo

A compilation of informative, useful articles designed to help you meet the challenges of process analytical technology, be more efficient in testing, reduce over-processing, enhance consistency, and minimize rejects.
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eBOOKS

Bioprocessing and Sterile Manufacturing 2015 eBook

This eBook features articles on sterility testing, disposable technologies, parenterals, facility planning, mAb formulation, and more.


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