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November 19, 2015
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Identifying Causes of Delamination
Contraceptive Packaging Error Leads to Lawsuit
Bespak and Aesica Announce New Business Model

Top Stories

Catalent Reports Action to Restart Softgel Facility

Operations at Catalent's Beinheim, France, softgel facility were suspended following suspected deliberate action to misplace capsules.
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AstraZeneca China Wins ISPE Facility of the Year Award

AstraZeneca's solid-dose facility in Taizhou, China received ISPE's FOYA 2015 Overall Winner award.
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Industry News

Report Finds Skills Gap in UK Biopharmaceutical Industry

An ABPI report found a lack of quality candidates for high-skilled roles in areas such as bioinformatics, translational medicine, clinical pharmacology, and pathology.
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Contraceptive Packaging Error Leads to Lawsuit

Lawsuit alleges birth control packaging error led to 113 unwanted pregnancies.
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Supplier News

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Emerson Collaborate in Biopharma Manufacturing

GE Healthcare Life Sciences and Emerson Process Management collaborate in biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
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Bespak and Aesica Announce New Business Model

Consort Medical has combined and integrated Aesica's drug formulation, manufacturing, and packaging capabilities with Bespak’s drug-delivery device design, development, and manufacturing services.
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Bio/Pharma News

The University of Pittsburgh Partners with Biopharmaceutical Company

The University of Pittsburgh partners with biopharmaceutical company, Shire plc, to research rare diseases.
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Roche Downsizes Small-Molecule Manufacturing and Exits Four Sites

Roche will invest in Switzerland but leave sites in Ireland, Spain, Italy, and the US as it focuses on lower-volume, specialized medicines.
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Equipment Showcase
The NP-400 is an economical, heavy-duty, medium output rotary tablet press designed, engineered and manufactured in the United States. Capable of running 24/7, the NP-400 can produce up to 180,000 tablets per hour. This single footprint press continuously monitors tablet pre-compression, main compression forces and tablet ejection force. Tablet take off force, press temperature and humidity monitoring are also available.
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Regulatory News

EMA Executive Director Guido Rasi Takes Office

The new executive director of the European Medicines Agency begins appointment.
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FDA Issues Guidance on Products that Contain Acetaminophen

The agency issues guidance on the labeling of over-the-counter products that contain acetaminophen.
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FEATURED TOPICS

PARENTERALS

Better Days for Parenterals?

Although shortages, quality, and regulatory challenges remain, improved technologies and new investments suggest that the worst may be over.
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SOLID DOSAGE

Exploring the Potential of Continuous Coating

Industry experts share insights on the advances in tablet coating technologies and the potential of continuous coating in solid-dosage manufacturing.
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PACKAGING

Identifying Causes of Delamination

Delamination of glass packaging is a source of particulates in parenteral drugs, but identifying the root cause allowed the design of an improved manufacturing process for glass vials.
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SUPPLY CHAIN

Piloting Track-and-Trace Implementation

Virtual pilot programs examine scenarios that may occur while implementing serialization requirements for the US Drug Supply Chain Security Act.
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REFERENCE BOOKS

Process Analytical Technology Resource Guide Combo

A compilation of informative, useful articles from Pharmaceutical Technology designed to help you meet the challenges of process analytical technology, be more efficient in testing, reduce over-processing, enhance consistency, and minimize rejects.
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eBOOKS

Bioprocessing and Sterile Manufacturing 2015 eBook

This eBook features articles on sterility testing, disposable technologies, parenterals, facility planning, mAb formulation, and more.

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