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Report highlights trends in the aseptic fill finish market

European Pharmaceutical Review

A report by Research and Markets has shown that at 35 percent, Europe has the largest share of the global aseptic fill finish services market at present. Overall, the market features large, mid-sized and small companies, which have the expertise necessary to offer these services across different types of packaging containers.

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

Pharmaceutical Technology

Manufacturers are actively looking at ways they can improve drug delivery through well-designed parenteral packaging systems, and the choice to deploy prefilled syringes for more and more injectable drug products is a key part of this push. Prefilled syringes offer a number of advantages over the more traditional glass vial.

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Pharmaceutical migration study sampling procedure reported

European Pharmaceutical Review

Contaminants in pharmaceutical packaging For clarity, the authors described that the aim of extractable studies are to: “identify the freely available substances present in a given material.” Internal standards for primary compound evaluation were selected. A common approach to quantitation is the use of internal standards.

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EU antibiotic shortages being monitored by MSSG

European Pharmaceutical Review

In addition, MSSG supports temporary national measures such as unit dose dispensing and compounding. MSSG and the SPOC working party will continue to closely monitor the situation together with the EC and EU States.

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Impacts of pharmaceutical pollution on communities and environment in India

Express Pharma

Although less commonly discussed, pharmaceutical compounds can also become airborne. Other strategies can be waste minimisation, green packaging, energy efficiency and sustainable sourcing. These substances can persist in the water supply, affecting aquatic life and potentially entering the drinking water we consume.

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The lingering menace of diethylene glycol / ethylene glycol adulteration

European Pharmaceutical Review

2 The issue arose because sulfanilamide is an extremely bitter tasting drug and to taste-mask the elixir formulation for use in children, the compounding pharmacist used EG as it was a good solvent, sweet-tasting and cheap. 5 Both compounds are limited to ≤0.1 percent or 1,000 ppm. This is considered an essentially safe dose.

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Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs

RX Note

Workplace activity involves how healthcare workers use and handle the drug in the workplace - such as opening shipments, compounding, administering or cleaning up after use or spills. The Hidden Truth Studies have shown that the antineoplastic residues can be found be on the external packaging of both oral and IV drugs.