A new whitepaper from Malvern Instruments on Oral Solid Dose (OSD) deformulation demonstrates how the analytical technique of Morphologically Directed Raman Spectroscopy (MDRS) can be used to accelerate the development of generic products to a successful conclusion.
Deformulation, the unpicking and investigation of a reference labeled drug (RLD), enables generic developers to understand the features of a product that define its clinical performance. “Accelerating the deformulation workflow for oral solid dosage forms” reviews the current regulatory landscape associated with generic development and considers the workflow for preparing OSD product Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs)...
The Pittcon Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the third annual Food Labs Conference, the only food conference focused on the food laboratory, will be held in conjunction with Pittcon 2015, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The co-location of the two conferences provides that the registration fee to attend the two-day Food Lab Conference, March. 9-10, will also include unlimited week long admission to the Pittcon exposition floor and technical program. The Food Labs Conference is unique in that it is not just focused on one discipline such as microbiology or chemistry, but takes a more holistic approach to best practices in managing food testing and analyses needs...
The globalization of the food chain has meant that the focus on food safety is greater than ever before and as a result, food manufacturers are facing increasingly stringent regulatory requirements.
One area that is receiving a growing amount of attention is mycotoxin intake from contaminated food and feed which causes mycotoxin intoxication. Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites that are typically produced by fungi growing on grains and fruit during shipment or storage. When ingested, mycotoxins may cause acute or chronic disease and it has been shown that repeated exposure to low level mycotoxin ingestion can affect...
An international leader in filtration and separation will be showcasing its latest chemical and process innovations at one of the world’s biggest industry events.
Organised by the Chemtech Foundation, the 27th ChemTECH World Expo in India brings together a diverse group of attendees, including suppliers, sellers, and manufacturers across the Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Fertiliser, and Process Industries. Focusing on the latest innovations and technology, ChemTECH 2015 will take place at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, from 28-31 January. Porvair Filtration Group will be...
The upcoming ISN World Congress of Nephrology (WCN 2015) covers cutting-edge medical science and educational sessions on pertinent topics with a particular emphasis on the risk factors that are most prominent in Africa.
Held for the first time on the African continent, it will take place from March 13 to 17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. “The goals of ISN’s 0by25 humanitarian initiative lead many sessions,” says ISN President Giuseppe Remuzzi, who supports one of ISN’s most important missions that nobody should die unnecessarily of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) by 2025. In addition to AKI worldwide, sessions will also look at the causes and...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an ion chromatography method with suppressed conductivity detection for sensitive determination of inorganic anions and carboxylic acids (fluoride, acetate, formate, mesylate, chloride, nitrate, succinate, malonate, sulfate, and oxalate) in airborne particulate matter (PM2.5).
Application Note 1107: Determination of Anions and Carboxylic Acids in Urban Fine Particles (PM2.5) demonstrates that this new method can determine more analytes relevant to air contamination than either of the two standard methods currently in use. The determination is performed using a high-pressure ion chromatography system, the Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ ICS-5000+ Reagent-Free™ HPIC™ system, equipped with a...
BMG LABTECH exhibits at the biggest Swiss Life Sciences Meeting for the first time
BMG LABTECH, the Microplate Reader Company is Gold sponsor of the LS² Annual Meeting 2015 from January 29-30th in Zurich. A visit to booth #33 at the Campus Irchel of the University of Zurich promises a personal introduction to BMG LABTECH’s high performance microplate readers and latest innovations. Since its establishment in Offenburg, Germany BMG LABTECH has become a world leader in microplate reading due to...
With only three weeks to go until the 4th Annual Clinical Development and Trials Asia Congress, and co-located 5th Annual Pharma R&D World Asia Congress, registration is closing shortly
Taking place on the 27th & 28th January 2015 in Shanghai, the event will be attended by industry leaders in Clinical Development & Clinical Trials Development in Asia, and will offer invaluable insights on successful strategies and technologies in enabling clinical development, clinical outsourcing strategies and clinical trial management....
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Join us on the 23rd & 24th February in Manchester Central Convention Complex to celebrate the success of the 10th Annual Biomarkers Congress, the leading Biomarkers congress in Europe.
Expecting to bring together over 250 senior level delegates representing leading biotech companies, global pharma organisations and internationally renowned academic institutions. The congress features 6 interactive streams:
The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, a Pennsylvania non-profit corporation, is proud to announce its 2015 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grant (PCMNCG) recipients.
The maximum funding available this year for each grant is $10,000 and is awarded to the science departments of colleges with less than 5,000 full-time students for the purchase of scientific equipment, audio-visual or other teaching aids, and/or library materials for use in the teaching of science at the undergraduate level. This year’s awardees are as follows...
Alon Vaisman, Product Development Manager for Process Systems at Malvern Instruments, will speak about two quite different analytical techniques and their applications as part of the ‘Particle Characterization’ session at this year’s IFPAC® (International Forum on Process Analytical Technology and Quality by Design) Annual Meeting.
In separate presentations he will discuss the ‘Applications of Dynamic Light Scattering as PAT for on-line nano-particle characterization’ and ‘In-situ monitoring of high shear and fluid bed processing using spatial filter velocimetry’. Both address areas of growing emphasis in pharmaceutical production. The continuing importance of large molecule based therapeutics, and the drive to reduce the particulate size of small molecule APIs, is bringing new challenges for...
At SLAS 2015 - product specialists from INTEGRA will be on hand to demonstrate and answer questions on the company's popular range of productivity enhancing liquid handling products.
The VIAFLO II multichannel electronic pipette range combines ultra lightweight design and unsurpassed operational comfort enabling users to improve efficiency in their working environment. VIAFLO II electronic pipettes together with INTEGRA’s wide range of GripTip pipette tips form the perfect pipetting system. GripTips snap into place with minimal tip loading effort, providing a secure connection. GripTips never fall off and are always perfectly...
Microbiology specialist Lab M will showcase its new convenient culture media product ranges at Arab Health, which takes place 26-29 January 2015 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre.
With a commitment to providing high quality products that aid laboratories in their efforts to optimise efficiency and workflow, Lab M has long been recognised for its comprehensive portfolio of dehydrated culture media (DCM). Now a number of these formulations are available as Pinnacle™ pre-poured plates and µPREP™ ready-to-reconstitute bags for ease of use in any laboratory. Lab M’s µPREP™ ‘just-add-water’ range of...
The Pittcon marketing department is pleased to announce the release of its official conference and exposition mobile app, Pittcon 2015.
The app, available for free download in the App Store for iOS and Android devices and the Kindle Fire, serves as a valuable resource tool before, during and after the event. It acts as an all-inclusive real-time show guide containing details on exhibiting companies, technical sessions, Conferee Networking sessions and short courses. The Pittcon mobile conference app was developed by ATIV Software and is built on the EventPilot meeting...
In collaboration with scientists from the European Union Reference Laboratory for Dioxins and PCBs in Feed and Food, Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a simple, reliable and robust method for detecting and confirming low levels of dioxins in food and feed samples using a triple quadrupole gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS/MS) system equipped with an autosampler.
Application Note 10406: Validation of GC-MS/MS for Detection and Confirmation of Low-Level Dioxins illustrates the excellent selectivity and sensitivity of this GC-MS/MS System for low levels of dioxins, even in complex matrices. Dioxins are a group of chemically-related compounds, including polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and some dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). These compounds are...
Reducing infection transmission risk on a paediatric high dependency unit was just one of the topics under discussion at Lyon, France on the first day of the Healthcare Infection Society Conference 2014.
A study showing how the Bioquell Pod has benefited the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust was presented to leading healthcare professionals. The Bioquell Pod is an infection control enclosure that has been designed to limit the spread of pathogens in ward environments and can be used to convert units into single occupancy rooms. It facilitates infection control management by segregating patients while offering easy...
‘Extending the boundaries of QbD’, a new whitepaper from Malvern Instruments, explores the application of Quality by Design (QbD) principles to the development of analytical instrumentation and the benefits this brings for users.
Taking the example of Malvern’s development of the Mastersizer 3000 particle size analyzer, the authors illustrate how instrument companies are aligning with the QbD philosophy. This offers pharmaceutical customers the reassurance of closely similar working practices and products that meet exacting customer standards. The central idea of QbD is that quality should be built into a product from the outset. It is an approach based on...
FLIR Systems, the global leader in thermal imaging, has announced its 15th Annual InfraMation Conference to be held May 12-15 2015 in Nashville, Tenneesee (USA).
The InfraMation Conference is widely acknowledged as a leading international event for attendees to learn about the latest thermal imaging techniques and applications, and network with many hundreds of industry colleagues. This conference is for thermographers, regardless of which camera system they might use, or those just interested in the latest new applications of the technology. InfraMation 2015 will feature leading industry...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed two robust methods to identify uronic acids in acid-hydrolyzed wood samples, with each method using a different specialized anion-exchange column as demonstrated in Application Note 1091: Determination of Uronic Acids and Wood Sugars in Wood-Based Hydrolysates.
Method 1 is a single high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with pulsed amperometric detection method that uses a mono- and disaccharide column, the Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ CarboPac™ PA20 column, for wood sugars and uronic acids. Method 2 is a faster method that uses an oligosaccharide column...
In collaboration with scientists from the European Union Reference Laboratory for Dioxins and PCBs in Feed and Food, Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a simple, reliable and robust method for detecting and confirming low levels of dioxins in food and feed samples using a triple quadrupole gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer (GC-MS/MS) system equipped with an autosampler.
Application Note 10406: Validation of GC-MS/MS for Detection and Confirmation of Low-Level Dioxins illustrates the excellent selectivity and sensitivity of this GC-MS/MS System for low levels of dioxins, even in complex matrices. Dioxins are a group of chemically-related compounds, including polychlorinated dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), and some dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). These compounds are...
Two new case studies highlighting the versatility of the Matrix Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) at Castrol’s Lubricant Technology Centre and Cavendish Nuclear’s environmental laboratory are now available for download.
'Matrix Provides Paperless LIMS At Castrol’ describes how product and development scientists at the Lubricant Technology Centre at Castrol, Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK, can request analytical tests and receive results by accessing Matrix from their own computers. Castrol, part of BP, has been a Matrix LIMS customer for more than 20 years. The analytical laboratory at Pangbourne provides a comprehensive test facility for the...
BMG LABTECH will showcase what is new with microplate reader technology
BMG LABTECH, the Microplate Reader Company, will be exhibiting at the SLAS conference 2015 from February 7-11th in Washington, DC. A visit to booth #0929 promises a personal introduction to BMG LABTECH’s high performance microplate readers and latest innovations. Since its establishment in Offenburg, Germany BMG LABTECH has become a world leader in microplate reading due to continuous development of innovative and...
Deformulation, the unpicking and investigation of a reference labeled drug (RLD), enables generic developers to understand the features of a product that define its clinical performance. “Accelerating the deformulation workflow for oral solid dosage forms” reviews the current regulatory landscape associated with generic development and considers the workflow for preparing OSD product Abbreviated New Drug Applications (ANDAs)...
The co-location of the two conferences provides that the registration fee to attend the two-day Food Lab Conference, March. 9-10, will also include unlimited week long admission to the Pittcon exposition floor and technical program. The Food Labs Conference is unique in that it is not just focused on one discipline such as microbiology or chemistry, but takes a more holistic approach to best practices in managing food testing and analyses needs...
One area that is receiving a growing amount of attention is mycotoxin intake from contaminated food and feed which causes mycotoxin intoxication. Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites that are typically produced by fungi growing on grains and fruit during shipment or storage. When ingested, mycotoxins may cause acute or chronic disease and it has been shown that repeated exposure to low level mycotoxin ingestion can affect...
Organised by the Chemtech Foundation, the 27th ChemTECH World Expo in India brings together a diverse group of attendees, including suppliers, sellers, and manufacturers across the Chemical, Pharmaceutical, Fertiliser, and Process Industries. Focusing on the latest innovations and technology, ChemTECH 2015 will take place at the Bombay Convention & Exhibition Centre in Mumbai, from 28-31 January. Porvair Filtration Group will be...
Held for the first time on the African continent, it will take place from March 13 to 17, 2015 in Cape Town, South Africa. “The goals of ISN’s 0by25 humanitarian initiative lead many sessions,” says ISN President Giuseppe Remuzzi, who supports one of ISN’s most important missions that nobody should die unnecessarily of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) by 2025. In addition to AKI worldwide, sessions will also look at the causes and...
Application Note 1107: Determination of Anions and Carboxylic Acids in Urban Fine Particles (PM2.5) demonstrates that this new method can determine more analytes relevant to air contamination than either of the two standard methods currently in use. The determination is performed using a high-pressure ion chromatography system, the Thermo Scientific™ Dionex™ ICS-5000+ Reagent-Free™ HPIC™ system, equipped with a...
BMG LABTECH, the Microplate Reader Company is Gold sponsor of the LS² Annual Meeting 2015 from January 29-30th in Zurich. A visit to booth #33 at the Campus Irchel of the University of Zurich promises a personal introduction to BMG LABTECH’s high performance microplate readers and latest innovations. Since its establishment in Offenburg, Germany BMG LABTECH has become a world leader in microplate reading due to...
In separate presentations he will discuss the ‘Applications of Dynamic Light Scattering as PAT for on-line nano-particle characterization’ and ‘In-situ monitoring of high shear and fluid bed processing using spatial filter velocimetry’. Both address areas of growing emphasis in pharmaceutical production. The continuing importance of large molecule based therapeutics, and the drive to reduce the particulate size of small molecule APIs, is bringing new challenges for...
The VIAFLO II multichannel electronic pipette range combines ultra lightweight design and unsurpassed operational comfort enabling users to improve efficiency in their working environment. VIAFLO II electronic pipettes together with INTEGRA’s wide range of GripTip pipette tips form the perfect pipetting system. GripTips snap into place with minimal tip loading effort, providing a secure connection. GripTips never fall off and are always perfectly...
With a commitment to providing high quality products that aid laboratories in their efforts to optimise efficiency and workflow, Lab M has long been recognised for its comprehensive portfolio of dehydrated culture media (DCM). Now a number of these formulations are available as Pinnacle™ pre-poured plates and µPREP™ ready-to-reconstitute bags for ease of use in any laboratory. Lab M’s µPREP™ ‘just-add-water’ range of...
The app, available for free download in the App Store for iOS and Android devices and the Kindle Fire, serves as a valuable resource tool before, during and after the event. It acts as an all-inclusive real-time show guide containing details on exhibiting companies, technical sessions, Conferee Networking sessions and short courses. The Pittcon mobile conference app was developed by ATIV Software and is built on the EventPilot meeting...
A study showing how the Bioquell Pod has benefited the Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust was presented to leading healthcare professionals. The Bioquell Pod is an infection control enclosure that has been designed to limit the spread of pathogens in ward environments and can be used to convert units into single occupancy rooms. It facilitates infection control management by segregating patients while offering easy...
Taking the example of Malvern’s development of the Mastersizer 3000 particle size analyzer, the authors illustrate how instrument companies are aligning with the QbD philosophy. This offers pharmaceutical customers the reassurance of closely similar working practices and products that meet exacting customer standards. The central idea of QbD is that quality should be built into a product from the outset. It is an approach based on...
The InfraMation Conference is widely acknowledged as a leading international event for attendees to learn about the latest thermal imaging techniques and applications, and network with many hundreds of industry colleagues. This conference is for thermographers, regardless of which camera system they might use, or those just interested in the latest new applications of the technology. InfraMation 2015 will feature leading industry...
'Matrix Provides Paperless LIMS At Castrol’ describes how product and development scientists at the Lubricant Technology Centre at Castrol, Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK, can request analytical tests and receive results by accessing Matrix from their own computers. Castrol, part of BP, has been a Matrix LIMS customer for more than 20 years. The analytical laboratory at Pangbourne provides a comprehensive test facility for the...
BMG LABTECH, the Microplate Reader Company, will be exhibiting at the SLAS conference 2015 from February 7-11th in Washington, DC. A visit to booth #0929 promises a personal introduction to BMG LABTECH’s high performance microplate readers and latest innovations. Since its establishment in Offenburg, Germany BMG LABTECH has become a world leader in microplate reading due to continuous development of innovative and...