News | March 3, 2009

Evolution Scientific Announces New Collaboration

Evolution Scientific Incorporated announces a collaborative agreement with Compliance and Quality Partners, LLC (C&QP).

February 2009 Evolution Scientific announces a collaborative agreement with Compliance and Quality Partners, LLC. This Collaborative agreement provides both organizations the ability to expand the GMP services offered to our clients. Evolution Scientific is an ISO 9001: 2008 registered technical services provider with a provision of technical services on customer owned equipment and instrumentation including calibration and metrology, maintenance, repair, and validation. Compliance and Quality Partners, LLC, offers specialized services to the industry designed to help solve regulatory and compliance concerns, improve drug product quality, resolve product reliability problems, and support the development and improvement of quality organizations.

Michael Vander Zwan, Ph.D., Principal Partner C&QP stated "Compliance and Quality Partners, LLC (C&QP), is delighted to announce its collaboration with Evolution Scientific. Through this relationship, C&QP can now offer its clients the full range of GMP services for plant and equipment qualification, calibration and maintenance right through to the operational systems necessary for company-wide GMP compliance and reliable drug product manufacturing."

C&QP and Evolution Scientifics' customers will benefit from this forward thinking collaboration between these two organizations. From executive leadership in quality to instrument calibration, customers can be confident that these organizations are here to guide and help them meet compliance and quality standards.

"This is a great opportunity for both companies. Not only do we gain the ability to offer each other's services, we can rely on each others expertise, reliability and integrity in the industry to offer the most comprehensive solutions at all levels of our customer's organizations" stated Joseph C. Morwald, President of Evolution Scientific Incorporated.

About Compliance and Quality Partners, LLC
C&QP provides executive leadership to build and improve GMP quality and compliance programs. C&QP is adept at helping organizations build long-lasting, GMP-compliant programs, as well as resolving short-term compliance issues. C&QP helps companies in all technical and quality aspects of new drug development, CMC preparation and preparing for regulatory pre-approval inspections. C&QP knows how to scientifically investigate process and product quality problems, identify root causes and determine permanent corrective actions.

Michael Vander Zwan, Ph.D., a 30-year pharmaceutical industry expert in quality management and GMP compliance is C&QP's principal partner. Dr. Vander Zwan's career spans API and drug product development, regulatory approvals and commercial operations in the USA and abroad. Dr. Vander Zwan has held positions such as Vice President for QA and Compliance at Celgene Corp and at Pharmacia, and as Head of Global Quality for Roche in Switzerland and as Executive Director at Merck and Co., Inc.

About Evolution Scientific Incorporated
Evolution Scientific is an ISO 9001:2008 comprehensive technical services source to the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries for equipment and instruments. The scope of the ISO registration includes the provision of technical services on customer owned equipment and instrumentation including calibration and metrology, maintenance, repair, and validation. This registration covers service performed at the customer site and at Evolution Scientific Incorporated with particular expertise in highly regulated industries such as pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device.

In June 2008, Evolution Scientific launched Certification Services; In August 2008, Evolution Scientific opened the doors to a new state-of-the-art Metrology Lab in Doylestown, Pennsylvania; In September 2008, Evolution Scientific added pipette calibration services to the portfolio of services offered to the industry. In January 2009, Evolution Scientific announced the recommendation for ISO 9001:2008 registration. In February 2009, Evolution Scientific announced the Company has established a collaborative agreement with Compliance and Quality Partners, LLC (C&QP).

SOURCE: Evolution Scientific Incorporated