Aseptic Process is the process for manufacturing sterile products where microbiological contaminants could not enter the production area or surface of the product. It is challenging for pharmaceutical manufacturers to ensure that the product they are handling will have absolutely no contaminants—especially if involving parenteral drugs. To isolate human contamination, it is beneficial to use…
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Robotics in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
“Robots are proving advantageous in filling, inspection, packaging, laboratories, and the manufacture of personalized medicine.” Automated inspection and packaging are increasing in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. There are many benefits to this within the pharmaceutical manufactures. These benefits include: efficiency in saving money with reducing training hours, eliminating human error, saving workers from hazardous environments…
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First FDA- Approved Injectable Weight-Loss Drug
Obesity researches just created a ‘Game-Changer’ weight loss drug that has been approved by the FDA. This is the first FDA-approved weight-loss drug since 2014. This drug is not an entirely new medication; it has been used in the US and other countries as an anti-diabetic medication. In research, it has shown that this drug—semaglutide—has…
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Manual Visual Inspection is Still Critical
Automated visual inspection has been created to perform as an alternative to manual visual inspection. This type of inspection is used to lower the cost and speed up the inspection process; pushing more drugs into the market. In USP <1790> it explains that any inspection other than manual inspection has to be “equivalent or better…
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