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Pharmtech
December 2017
Volume 29, No. 12
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| COVER STORY |

Ingredients for Bio/Pharma Career Advancement

Rita C. Peters

Amid business and regulatory uncertainty, bio/pharma experts reveal opinions on salary, recognition, and training.
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| FORMULATION AND
MANUFACTURING |

Opportunities with Softgels

Adeline Siew, PhD

Softgel capsules are a popular dosage form among patients but they also provide a number of manufacturing benefits over liquid-filled hardgel capsules.
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Critical Parameters in Transdermal Patch Manufacturing

Jennifer Markarian

A QbD approach can address manufacturing complexities in transdermal patch manufacturing.
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| API SYNTHESIS AND MANUFACTURING |

Hazardous Chemistry: Choosing Batch or Flow

Cynthia A. Challener

For many processes involving hazardous chemistry, running in flow mode has safety and economic advantages.
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| LYOPHILIZATION |

Modernizing Lyophilization

Agnes Shanley

A technology roadmap aims to drive and consolidate improvements in a process that has remained unchanged for more than 70 years.
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| PEER-REVIEWED |

Methods for Identifying Out-of-Trend Data in Analysis of Stability Measurements—Part II: By-Time-Point and Multivariate Control Chart

Máté Mihalovits, Sándor Kemény

In Part I of this article series, the authors discussed the regression control chart method for identifying out-of-trend data in pharmaceutical stability studies. In Part II, the by-time-point method and the multivariate control chart method are investigated, and improved approaches are suggested. The method is illustrated using real data sets.
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| FACILITY DESIGN AND OPERATIONS |

Designing Sustainable Pharma Facilities

Jennifer Markarian

Optimizing water and HVAC systems can reduce resource use in all pharma facilities, and, for biopharma manufacturing, the supply chain of consumables should be evaluated.
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| GOOD DISTRIBUTION PRACTICES |

Reliability Rooms and the Move to Proactive Supply Chain Management

Ian Elliot

Cross-functional reliability rooms identify risk and planning metrics, provide insights for production forecasts, and predict trends and areas for improvement.
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| EUROPEAN REGULATORY WATCH |

Disputes Over Manufacturing Waiver and Other SPC Exemptions

Sean Milmo

The European Commission's effort to relax supplementary protection certificates to help generic-drug makers and biosimilars producers has sparked strong opposition from the research-based pharmaceutical sector.
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| OUTSOURCING REVIEW |

Outsourcing: A Year in Review

Susan Haigney

In a productive year, 2017 was filled with acquisitions, facility expansions, and new biopharma technology.
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| ASK THE EXPERT |

What's in Your SOP?

Susan J. Schniepp

SOPs need to reflect a company's specific manufacturing or other operations, says Susan Schniepp, distinguished fellow at Regulatory Compliance Associates.
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| EVENTS |

Pharmapack Europe

Paris, France
7–8 February 2018

9th Global Drug Delivery & Formulation Summit

Berlin, Germany
12–14 March 2018

Paperless Lab Academy 2018

Milano, Italy
20–21 March 2018

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