December 2016
Volume 40, No. 12 |
|
|
|
|
|
| COVER STORY |
Rita C. Peters
Survey reveals optimism, discontent, and a desire for better career opportunities. read more
| WORKING WITH REGULATORS |
Susan Haigney
Pharmaceutical companies must see regulators as partners in their efforts to provide safe and effective therapies worldwide. read more
Susan Haigney
Pharmaceutical Technology reached out to the US Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) to get an understanding about how pharma manufacturers can get involved in developing industry standards. read more
|
|
|
PharmTech December Issue
advertisement
|
|
|
|
|
|
| FORMULATION |
Detlev Haack, Martin Köberle
Hot-melt coating was used to develop taste-masked orally disintegrating granules of acetaminophen and caffeine.
read more
| FACILITY DESIGN |
Eric Bohn
Airlocks, gowning rooms, and transition spaces have different uses and should be considered separately in cGMP pharmaceutical facility design.
read more
| QUALITY |
Cherie Schneider
Understanding of endotoxin assays and a range of detection technologies are essential for effective testing.
read more
|
|
|
| PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH |
Pramote Cholayudth
The Uniformity of Dosage Units test is used to evaluate content uniformity or weight variation or dosage forms such as tablets and capsules. The author introduces two different acceptance value limits (n = 10 and 30) in this article.
read more
|
|
|
| API SYNTHESIS & MANUFACTURING |
Cynthia A. Challener
Non-precious-metal catalysts are increasingly employed for commercial API synthesis.
read more
| FILL/FINISH |
Randi Hernandez
Improvements to aseptic manufacturing procedures are long overdue. But how feasible is it for manufacturers to modernize fill lines of legacy products?
read more
| OUTSOURCING |
Eric Langer
Biosimilars may be the key to CMO growth.
read more
|
|
|
| TROUBLESHOOTING|
Anne Hansen
Quantitative and qualitative tools allow better understanding of mixing in a single-use bioprocessing system.
read more
| REGULATORY WATCH |
Jill Wechsler
Republican control of Washington promises overhaul of healthcare and medical product regulation.
read more
|
|
|
| FROM THE EDITOR |
Rita C. Peters
Rookie API developers beat pharma at its own game.
read more
|
|
|
| ASK THE EXPERT |
Susan J. Schniepp
Susan Schniepp, distinguished fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates, discusses training personnel on a limited budget.
read more
|
|
|
| PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT |
The R Series Shrink banders from PDC International Corporation perform label and neck banding functions at line speeds of 400 to 1000 cpm.
read more
The Prominence Ultra-Fast Preparative and Purification Liquid Chromatograph (UFPLC) from Shimadzu enables fast recovery of highly purified target compounds from complex samples including organic synthesis reaction mixtures and natural products.
read more
Zeiss's Axio Observer inverted microscope platform includes new automation features, allowing researchers to perform multimodal imaging of living and fixed specimens.
read more
The Portable High Shear Mixing System from Ross, Charles & Son is designed for powder dispersion into liquid, emulsification, and homogenization in a closed, temperature controlled vessel.
read more
|
|
|
| Events |
January 9–13, 2017
February 1–2, 2017
May 16–18, 2017
more events
|
|
|
|
|