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Prefilled syringes and vaccines: Optimising parenteral packaging for the next pandemic

Pharmaceutical Technology

When it comes to vaccines and other high-value biologics, it is essential that effective formulations go hand in hand with safe delivery. An example is the ability of a patient suffering from venous thrombosis to perform their own injections of heparin – an anticoagulant often packaged in a prefilled syringe.

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Preventing fungal contamination in pharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Additionally, this can be caused by “poor handling, repackaging, and nonadherence to good manufacturing practices [GMP] during dispensing and packaging have resulted in the microbiological contamination of non-sterile pharmaceutical products.” Ahmed et al.

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UK manufacturing and R&D to benefit from new £360m investment

European Pharmaceutical Review

On 4 March, ahead of the Spring Budget , the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, announced a significant investment package for the UK life sciences and manufacturing sectors. million will support two pharmaceutical companies investing a combined £84 million to expand their manufacturing plants in the UK. A sum of £7.5

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CMO Moves: Regulatory catalysts for drug manufacturing-December

Pharmaceutical Technology

In this last 2022 edition of the series, which started in June , Pharmaceutical Technology is tracking major trial announcements and decisions by regulators and reimbursement agencies that have occurred since mid-October, as well as their potential impact on manufacturing plans. Source: GlobalData Pharmaceutical Intelligence Center.

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CMO Moves: Regulatory catalysts for drug manufacturing-April

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical companies regularly outsource different steps of drug manufacturing processes like parenteral manufacturing and packaging, solid dose, and small molecule or biologic active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production, among others. Covid-19 vaccines stay in the spotlight.

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Sanofi to sell Japanese manufacturing plant

European Pharmaceutical Review

Sanofi has signed definitive agreements with Adragos Pharmaceutical, a German contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), for the sale of its pharmaceutical manufacturing site in Kawagoe, Japan. The French pharmaceutical company will also enter into a long-term supply agreement with the CDMO.

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2022 ISPE Annual Meeting: Transform, Collaborate, & Innovate for the Path Forward

ISPE

Applying what has been learned over the last three years to update pharmaceutical companies’ approaches to development and implementation is key as the industry crafts its strategies in an increasingly digital and global environment. Pfizer “cleared runway to allow for large-scale vaccine manufacturing before we had a product!”