FEATURE ARTICLES

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  5 Supplier Management Best Practices

  The expectations of manufacturers and sponsors to control activities and materials provided by their suppliers has been magnified due to FDA-regulated products and the rapid expansion of globalization of the supply chain. With increased responsibilities, each organization needs to ensure that their suppliers provide services and materials that are fit for purpose through a Supplier Quality Management Lifecycle Model. The following includes recommended steps for developing and managing a supplier management program.  By Benjamin Frey, Senior Director, compliance. ProPharma Group

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• 3 Serialization Issues Even GS1 Is Concerned About
• Critical Process Parameters And Critical Quality Attributes: Why Does The Selection Process Take So Long?

INDUSTRY WHITE PAPERS

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  Constant 20°C In Fluctuating Ambient Temperatures

  Ensuring that your shipment stays at the required constant temperature throughout the delivery chain requires the right packaging and handling as the cost of losing an entire shipment of product to spoilage and the associated damage to your business could be disastrous. By Mark Mohr, CSafe Global

• Using Dry Ice When Shipping Air Freight

  Healthcare product manufacturers, transportation providers and distributors have a moral, and in most cases, a regulatory responsibility to help insure the product arrives to the end-user intact. Protection of product efficacy demands use of the latest reliable technologies available. People’s lives truly depend on it. By Mark Mohr, CSafe Global

   

   

• Improved Purification Of Lead Generation Compounds By Flash Chromatography

  During pharmaceutical development of biologically active compounds, the identification and purification of unknown impurities is a key requirement for the successful registration of a new molecular entity. By Rakesh Bose, Scott Anderson, Kathy Lawrence, and Melissa Wilcox 

• 5 Tips To Minimizing Risk In Your Cold Chain Packaging

  As pharmaceuticals have become more and more regulated, companies have had the need to build or evaluate their cold chain processes and packaging to comply with those regulations and minimize risk. By Jean Bédard, President and CEO, Infitrak

CASE STUDIES

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  Exemestane Case Study

  Big Pharma’s patent cliff coupled with a push by legislators around the world to control healthcare costs have helped contribute to a booming generic pharmaceuticals industry. By Jeff McGilvra, Ph.D.

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  The ROI Of Temperature Mapping & Monitoring: A Hypothetical Case Study

  Have you ever conducted an analysis your own product loss and maintenance costs around your refrigeration equipment? If not, let’s look at scenario, based on actual customer data, to help determine what improperly monitored temperatures are really costing you. By Jean Bédard, President and CEO, Infitrak

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  Increasing Accuracy, Not Costs: Vision Inspection Improves Detection

  For years, one major pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer relied on representative sampling for quality control instead of automated vision inspection. Representative sampling was unable to provide a satisfactory rate of inspection, and the company turned to Mettler-Toledo for help.

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  Pfizer Ireland Selects eSight For Automatic Analysis And Integration Of Energy Data

  Pfizer is the world’s leading research-based biomedical and pharmaceutical company.

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  CUREM’s Use Of Medrio Allows For Study To Be Built Early And Under Budget

  CUREM Research Partners is a contract research organization (CRO) providing customized clinical trial research support including study management, clinical monitoring, and data management. They have met the clinical needs of single site phase I trials through multi-center phase III projects.

PHARMACEUTICAL ONLINE VIDEOS

• Pfizer CentreSource High Containment Services Video

  A narrated tour of the Pfizer high containment facility in Freiburg, Germany, demonstrating the world-class contract high potency, solid oral dose processing capabilities available globally from Pfizer CentreSource.

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  Brookfield Features Rheometer And Viscometer With Touchscreen At Pittcon 2013

  Lori Clapper speaks with Brookfield’s Bob McGregor about the updates they’ve made to their Rheometer and Viscometer.

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  Miele Features Sustainable, Robust Washers At Pittcon 2013

  Lori Clapper spoke with Miele’s Deb Ruriani about two of the main issues she hears from lab workers today.

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  Shipping Infectious Specimens By Air Tutorial Video

  Classifying, packaging and labeling biological specimens for clinical trials or clinical research is often challenging.

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  Azbil BioVigilant's Instantaneous Microbial Detection System Video

  Azbil BioVigilant's IMD-A® rapid biologic detection system revolutionizes environmental air monitoring for microbial contamination.

FEATURED SUPPLIERS

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  Filamatic

  Filamatic has been providing solutions for liquid filling applications for over 50 years. Our equipment can be specifically designed to meet your unique needs and expectations. We have built our reputation and kept our customers satisfied by manufacturing equipment that is accommodating, dependable, and precise.

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  Pfizer CentreSource Pfizer CentreSource (PCS) is a leading pharmaceutical contract manufacturer that offers a range of GMP compliant sourcing and outsourcing services to meet your pharmaceutical production requirements.
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  Norwich

  Norwich Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a full-service outsourcing provider of Rx and OTC pharmaceuticals. We have the experience and capabilities of a large pharmaceutical manufacturer plus the benefits of being independently owned.

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  K-Tron

  K-Tron is the global leader in high-quality feeders, pneumatic conveyors / components, and related process equipment, systems, and services. K-Tron holds more than 100 patents for feeding, weighing, mechanical and control technologies and their application to bulk solids handling.

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FEATURED PRODUCTS

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  LF-SMH BenchTop Multi-Head Leak Testing Machine

  The Leak Testing Machine is used for off-line Non-Destructive Container Closure Integrity Testing. It performs the Leak Testing process on five Container at a time by means of a Testing Section under Vacuum or Pressure.

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  Healthcare Logistics & Supply Chain Management

  The international healthcare market is valued at more than $1T in goods — and spending is expected to grow 5 percent annually through 2013. Given the huge growth within this industry, you need a global distribution network to manage your healthcare logistics efficiently and cost-effectively. 

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  Envirotainer RKN t2 Container

  The Envirotainer RKN t2 container provides accurate and reliable protection for shipments of temperature-sensitive products.

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  Biological Safety Cabinet- Class II, Type B1- Labgard 427

  The Labgard 427 offers significantly reduced life-cycle costs with a number of design innovations that make the Class II Type B1 Laminar Flow Biological Safety Cabinet a viable choice for laboratory professionals.

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  Liquid Loss-in-Weight Feeder K-tron's Liquid Loss-in-Weight Feeders provide accurate gravimetric feeding of liquids and pastes, in either continuous or batch operation.

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