News continues to percolate as manufacturers, contract packagers and others implement serialization systems, a necessary step to compliance with the looming November 2017 deadline of the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA). (Deadlines in other countries are also […]
Read MoreConstantia Flexibles’ Live Stress Test analyzes the coldforming process for blister packaging. Constantia Flexibles (Blythewood, SC), best known for its Coldform foils for blister card packaging, has introduced two services to better analyze the blister card design and manufacturing processes. […]
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John Doyle Quintiles Ryan Million Trinity There is a perception that national vaccination programs, or even just individual vaccinations for, say, travelers going abroad, has been motoring along for decades, due to the near-universal acclaim that vaccination has […]
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Fig. 1. Typical Pump Performance Curve Table 1. Equipment selection criteria Specifying a suitable container for shipping temperature-controlled life sciences products usually involves matching the design elements of the container (insulation quality, amount of gel refrigerants, etc.) with the trade […]
Read MoreDealmaking in the pharma sector reached an all-time high in 2014, and data from 2015 thus far suggests an equally strong showing. Much of the activity has been generated by Big Pharma looking to buy up smaller companies with promising […]
Read MoreNow in its 25th year, the Healthcare Compliance Packaging Council (Bon Air, VA), which promotes the use of compliance packaging (blister cards and other forms of unit-dose packaging) by pharma packagers, is opening a student competition in parallel with its […]
Read MoreFDA has organized its quality initiative around review, inspection, surveillance, policy and research Two trends stand out in the rapidly changing landscape of pharma and biotech manufacturing today: the whirlwind of mergers, acquisitions and buyouts will not let up anytime […]
Read MoreSpringtime, the annual BIO meeting, and the general upswing in both commercial and investor activity in biotech (see p. 8) has brought a raft of new announcements of manufacturing capacity. Interestingly, most of the new announcements involve non-US companies expanding […]
Read MoreThe annual report from Evaluate Pharma, World Preview 2015, Outlook to 2020, compiles a variety of data on research, drug pipelines, and current and projected sales. By its count, the No. 1 biopharma company in the world both in 2014 […]
Read MoreFig. 1 AstraZeneca’s Seroquel (top), the 2014 HCPC winner; Lilly’s Strattera (middle); Novartis’ Exforge (bottom) Pharma manufacturers (and their contract packaging providers) who are considering compliance (unit-dose) packaging have three trends to take advantage of: More of the overall healthcare […]
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