There is a great need for sensitive, precise, and easily accessible analytical detection techniques for protein sequencing.

Biologics Quality Control: The Growing Need for Accessible Proteomics

The emergence of mRNA vaccines and cell and gene therapies has pushed innovation in analytical methods.

Emerging Therapies Drive Analytical Advancements

Effective analytics will eliminate failures, deviations, and non-conformances.

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New product reviews for March 2013, featuring automation, IT, and process control systems.

Product Spotlight: Automation/IT/Process Control

Cynthia A. Challener is a contributing editor to Pharmaceutical Technology.

New handheld Raman technology is helping improve raw-material analysis and counterfeit-drug detection.

Handheld Point and Shoot Instrumentation Changes the Game for Raw-Materials Identification and Verification

Hallie Forcinio is packing editor for Pharmaceutical Technology and Pharmaceutical Technology Europe, editorhal@sbcglobal.net.

Equipment purchased today for the packaging line should be serialization-ready in preparation for upcoming requirements.

Be Prepared for Serialization

Two methods to evaluate retest data following out-of-specification results.

Calculating the Reportable Result from Retest Data

Mark Copley is Sales Director at Copley Scientific.

Even in an industry in which all product development is complicated by the intricacies of human biology, orally inhaled products (OIP) stand out as singularly demanding.

Improving Inhaled Product Testing: Methods for Obtaining Better In vitro-In vivo Relationships

Recent activity in standards-setting organizations has raised interest in the impact of testing for impurities that may enter the product before it is mined or harvested or even due to intentional use of some reagents.

Modernization of the Standards for Elemental Impurities

Jennifer Markarian is manufacturing reporter for Pharmaceutical Technology.

Revisions to the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) General ChapterHeavy Metals have been much discussed over the past decade.

Elemental Impurities General Chapter Revisions Move Forward

Advances in data loggers and radio-frequency identification tags help meet the increasing need for managing the pharmaceutical cold chain.

Logging the Cold Chain

The authors discuss the valuable information that can be obtained from indexing and its applications in routine screening and analysis of solid forms.

X-ray Powder Diffraction Pattern Indexing for Pharmaceutical Applications

Tim Freeman of Freeman Technology explains how new analytical technologies have influenced quality criteria and standards for the uniformity of dosage units, and why more accurate systems are leading to greater focus on tablet scoring.

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Biologics Quality Control: The Growing Need for Accessible Proteomics

Emerging Therapies Drive Analytical Advancements

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