Industry Insights
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Optimizing Sialic Acid Clone Screening Through A High-Throughput Lectin Assay
2/2/2024
While the traditional high-performance analytical methods used to evaluate glycosylation offer operators high accuracy, their throughput limitations can create time and cost constraints that may hinder development.
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Taste-Masking: A Unique Solution To Improve Patient Compliance
8/10/2021
Taste plays an especially important role in pediatric medications, but it can affect adult compliance as well. No matter age, if you have poor-tasting medicine, you’re more likely not to take every dosage.
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Steps To Consider To Reduce Risk Of Biopharma Component Shortages
8/16/2022
Find out what steps you can take to reduce the risk of component shortages in medical devices and for the manufacture of drugs and biologics, and their consequences.
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Single-Use Standardization: Is It Holding Back The Biopharma Industry?
6/1/2015
The data from BioPlan Associates’ 12th Annual Report and Survey of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Capacity and Production speaks to the industry’s ongoing desires for standardization in single-use devices. As usage of these disposable devices increases, the gap between the importance of standardization and end-users’ satisfaction with their supplier’s standardization efforts has steadily been worsening.
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Which Comes First – The Process Or The Solution?
How can you determine what you should automate and the best approach for your business needs? I find the best approach is to understand your own business needs/requirements, how you want the process to work and why the specific solution you are considering will be best for your operations. By Christine Park, Quality Architech
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Plugging India Into The Global Cold Chain With Effective Monitoring, Compliance And Registration
5/22/2014
India is a hot topic in the food industry currently, as a result of the EU imposing a ban on the import of mangoes from the country due to quality issues.
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A Quality Validation Risk Management Approach To Establishing Sampling Plans
11/20/2016
The biopharmaceutical industry is continuously undergoing organizational changes intended to better support the healthcare industries while maintaining quality and reducing cost. This article will illustrate how manufacturers can add value to their operations by using a quality validation risk management approach for the development of sampling plans. Establishing a quality validation risk management approach for all pharmaceutical processes would increase the probability of successful outcomes for both the companies producing the products — by helping to meet regulatory requirements — while better contributing to the quality of healthcare for patients.
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What You Need To Know About Manufacturing OTC Products
5/4/2021
As more medications move to OTC status, people are interested in playing a more active role in managing their health and controlling their healthcare choices. However, self-medication comes with risks.
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The Importance Of Strong Project Controls In Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
12/21/2020
Projects generate a multitude of data, yet in many underperforming organizations the data isn’t distilled into metrics which can then be collated into KPIs. All Project Managers should understand the scope of their project, have a list of all of the activities that must be accomplished to complete the project, and should assign both cost and duration to each of these activities.
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Unlocking The Full Potential Of Genomic Medicine
6/1/2022
There are two key challenges to realizing the potential of genomic medicines, but potential technological solutions are on the horizon, and we examine each.