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Drug safety driving pyrogen testing market expansion

European Pharmaceutical Review

The authors highlighted the variations in methods advised in guidelines from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) were a contributing factor. As such, this “could impact the need for rigorous quality control measures, such as pyrogen testing”.

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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.” One case of drug contamination from 2021 was highlighted in the paper. Ahmed et al.

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What gene therapy manufacturers can gain from collaboration

European Pharmaceutical Review

Challenges in gene therapy manufacturing Photo: courtesy of PTC Therapeutics The biotech industry is facing a bottleneck in product manufacturing, with more than 1,000 gene therapies currently being developed as potential clinical candidates, 1 and not nearly enough capacity in manufacturing facilities to accommodate them.

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EMA publishes updated Q&A for ICH M10

European Pharmaceutical Review

The ICH M10 guideline provides recommendations on the validation of bioanalytical assays for chemical and biological drugs and their metabolites in biological matrices. These concentration measurements are used as part of regulatory decisions regarding the safety and efficacy of medicinal products.

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Forward-thinking CDMO tackles the dynamic challenge of N-nitrosamines control with high-performance analytical instrumentation

European Pharmaceutical Review

API method development and testing at Polpharma API As a key player in the Polish pharmaceutical market and a prominent drug manufacturer in Central and Eastern Europe, Polpharma API exports medicinal products to 35 markets and active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) to over 60 countries.

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LAMP assays to enable rapid and sensitive detection of BCC

European Pharmaceutical Review

According to researchers, a ribB -based colorimetric loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay could become a fast and easy-to-perform detection method for testing non-sterile pharmaceuticals for BCC. Burkholderia species are one of the primary causes of non-sterile pharmaceutical product recalls and accounted for 45.3

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Securing every dose with an edible security technology for safe medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

The prevalence of fake drugs is a continually growing problem worldwide. Fake drugs can be categorised as substandard, falsified, counterfeit and diverted drugs, and the World Health Organization (WHO) broadly defines a counterfeit medicine as “one which is deliberately and fraudulently mislabelled with respect to identity and/or source.”