While ASMS 2021 in Philadelphia is coming to a close, there are no shortages of announcements coming from a busy week filled with innovations and solutions for scientists in proteomics, biopharmaceuti...
The week is flying by at ASMS 2021 in Philadelphia and the latest innovations continue to roll out for biopharmaceutical laboratories working across R&D, manufacturing and quality control (QC) environ...
ASMS 2021 is fully underway in Philadelphia, PA and once again we are excited to be empowering scientists to drive groundbreaking discoveries with the introduction of new-generation mass spectrometry ...
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It was Pittcon 2019 when the Thermo Scientific™ TriPlus 500 Headspace Autosampler was introduced to the market of volatiles organic compounds (VOC) sampling for GC and GC-MS. Thermo Scientific TriPlus...
Like everyone, I have been relieved to see the end of a challenging year. It is easy to look back on 2020 and be sad for the many things we missed out on. No doubt we still have challenges ahead, but ...
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this blog series, we touched upon ways ion chromatography (IC) can have more uses in the pharma lab than just for counterion analysis and how it offers a direct approach to pol...
In my last blog post, “Challenging pharmaceutical impurity analyses Part 1 – Derivatization – first choice or last resort?” I looked into some of the issues that could occur when using derivatization....
With pharmaceutical impurities under increasing scrutiny, recently so with the nitrosamine issues in Ranitidine and prior to that Valsartan, the question of ‘What’s in our medicines?’ has never been m...
This diary belongs to Tom, I’m married with two small children aged 5 and 7 and work in the QA/QC department of a medium-sized pharmaceutical company in the UK. This year, I’ve decided to keep a diary...
This diary belongs to Tom, I’m married with two small children aged 5 and 7 and work in the QA/QC department of a medium-sized pharmaceutical company in the UK. This year, I’ve decided to keep a diary...
There are a few Ranitidine (brand name Zantac among others) drug manufacturers getting heartburn over product recalls at the moment. This popular generic drug for the treatment of indigestion and refl...
It was not so long ago when Valsartan manufacturers started dreading the need for immediate risk assessment of the presence of nitrosamines in their medicinal products. In the summer of 2018, not only...
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We recently conducted a pharmaceutical impurity webinar series with experts from LGC Standards, Broughton Laboratories and Thermo Fisher Scientific to highlight the most recent advancements in the are...
The growth of bio–therapeutics has occurred mainly due to the greater success rates within the clinical trials phase of drug development. This means that more drugs are being brought to market. Due to...
Over the past year, myself and Dr. Christian Zeine of LGC, have been engaging with scientists involved in the analysis of pharmaceutical impurities. During this time, there have been some questions th...
Reading through some recent U.S. FDA Warning Letters to pharma manufacturers concerning data integrity, I came across a new one regarding a Chromatography Data System (CDS). There were a couple of ver...
"You have all these audit trails, which provide great information about your testing, but none of your procedures tell you to review those audit trails. I'll expect to see that next time I'm here."Tho...
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Well, that’s just your opinion.We all see, feel, experience and interpret the world around us differently; you could say we each have a unique perspective. This is partly based on environmental factor...
In this previous article I interviewed Dr. Christian Zeine from LGC as to what pharmaceutical impurities are, why we analyse them and the regulations surrounding pharmaceutical impurities. In this art...
My previous blog titled When Drones Deliver Your Prescription Medications had briefly touched upon on how modern day technology (e.g. drones!) is enabling fast and reliable service for today’s consume...
The road to drug approval is a long and bumpy one. It’s estimated that a drug takes at least 10 years to make the journey from discovery to the market. The overwhelming majority of drugs will not comp...
These Kids Don’t Know How Lucky They Are!Back in the 80s and early 90s we used pens and paper at school. We referred to text books and went to the library or spoke to our elders to find out answers fo...
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