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Funny Pharm: You Write the Caption & Win: May 2013

"Funny Pharm," features drawings by award-winning cartoonist Jerry King. Submit your caption and win
Post Date: 04/30/2013
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PittCon Observations from the Floor

The trend to smaller and smaller instruments has become a goal for most companies, and miniature spectrometers had a big presence
Post Date: 04/30/2013
Author: Emil Ciurczak, Contributing Editor

Powder Flow: Identifying Powder’s Critical Quality Attributes & Relationship to Process Behavior

Powders are highly complex variable materials and are used in the manufacture of over 80% of products currently on the market. Flow properties relate to numerous processes so powder behaviour will influence all sorts of key quality attributes of the finished product.
Post Date: 04/29/2013
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Cleaning Agent Residue Detection with UHPLC

The productivity potential of ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography is a “clean” cut case
Post Date: 04/26/2013
Author: Michael Gietl, Brook Meadows and Paul Lopolito, Steris corp.

Good Vibrations

Respondents to Pharmaceutical Manufacturing’s 9th annual job satisfaction and salary survey find the industry is beginning to hit a few more high notes than last year
Post Date: 04/26/2013
Author: Steven E. Kuehn, Editor in Chief

"Hanging as Long As..."

Three years later, we are still waiting for the FDA to issue its social media guidance
Post Date: 04/26/2013
Author: Michele Vaccarello Wagner, Senior Editor, Digital Media

Continuous Chromatography as a Downstream Bioprocess Tool

Either true or simulated, moving bed chromatography has real potential to speed the flow downstream
Post Date: 04/23/2013
Author: Emil Ciurczak, Contributing Editor

Here’s to the Next 10 and 50 to Follow

A happy 10th anniversary to both the FDA’s Pharmaceutical GMPs for the 21st Century as well as Pharmaceutical Manufacturing magazine
Post Date: 04/23/2013
Author: Steven E. Kuehn, Editor in Chief

How to Optimize Continuous OSD Manufacturing

The opportunities are there and an experienced integrator can often make it happen
Post Date: 04/16/2013
Author: Hector T. Davila, Director Process/Specialty Engineering, Fluor

Coming of Age

It’s been 10 years since the FDA released Pharmaceutical GMPs for the 21st Century, but it’s likely the next 10 that will shape the industry for decades after
Post Date: 04/10/2013
Author: Angelo DePalma, Ph.D.

Funny Pharm: You Write the Caption & Win: April 2013

"Funny Pharm" features drawings by award-winning cartoonist Jerry King. Submit your caption and win.
Post Date: 04/04/2013
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Hiding the Costs of Outsourcing

Be sure to weigh all of the pros and cons as well as ROI before making the decision to outsource
Post Date: 03/20/2013
Author: Emil Ciurczak, Contributing Editor

FDA Approves Flublok Vaccine for Adults

First trivalent influenza vaccine based on insect-based recombinant DNA technology
Post Date: 03/18/2013
Author: Steven E. Kuehn, Editor in Chief, and Katie Weiler, Managing Editor

Open-Source Your Body

An 11-day contest at MIT aims to create an open-source platform where apps that track aspects of your bodily health can exchange information
Post Date: 03/18/2013
Author: Michele Vaccarello Wagner, Senior Editor, Digital Media

Mixing and Blending the Perfect Cocktail

Many mixers on the market can perform different tasks, but certain products are necessary to meet specific requirements
Post Date: 03/18/2013
Author: Katie Weiler, Managing Editor

Weighing the Benefits of Scale Equipment

When it comes to pharmaceutical manufacturing, every machine, component and piece of equipment must work in unison
Post Date: 03/18/2013
Author: Louis Alonzo, Territory Manager, Avery Weigh-Tronix

Germs, Vaccines and Stainless Steel

Biopharma continues to shape human history, fighting the good fight against germs and chronic disease; winning through innovation and sometimes, just plain old persistence
Post Date: 03/14/2013
Author: Steven E. Kuehn

Framework for Fast Microbiological Assessment

Encyclopedia of Rapid Microbiological Methods, Volume 4: The Next Generation of Rapid Method Applications, Validation Strategies and Regulatory Acceptance
Post Date: 03/14/2013
Author: Michael J. Miller, Ph.D.

The Case for Global Supply Chain Standards

Agreement around common supply chain standards and supporting processes could revolutionize the healthcare sector
Post Date: 03/13/2013
Author: Thomas Ebel, Katy George, Erik Larsen and Ketan Shah, Mckinsey & Co.

Ins & Outs of Tech Transfer

Best practices for one of oursourced manufacturing's tougher challenges
Post Date: 03/13/2013
Author: Angelo DePalma, Ph.D.