Lyostat Speeds Process Development At Danisco

Danisco is a world leader in food ingredients, enzymes and bio-based solutions. Their ingredients are used worldwide in a range of industries from food and drink, animal feed, chemicals and biofuels.

Danisco received their Lyostat freeze drying microscope last year and after an "excellent" training course were able to quickly get to work.

Danisco's Lyostat is used to aid development of formulations for preservation of biological materials. Biological materials can be extremely complex to freeze-dry, as stability, cost-efficiency, and post-process viability all need to be delivered in a repeatable and validatable fashion. Typical trial-and-error experimentation is lengthy and wasteful, so determination of key thermal events enables the freeze-drying formulation development procedure to be streamlined. Lyostat is able to identify collapse temperature quickly and easily and this data can also be used as evidence for regulatory purposes.

Danisco comment,
"Thanks to its easy handling and the explanation provided by BTL scientist Tom Peacock, everybody was able to carry out the analysis. We are very satisfied with the Lyostat and have implemented it in our development process."

SOURCE: Biopharma Technology Limited