Bioprocessing Featured Articles
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Holistic QbD: A Key To Improved Profitability And Sustained Competitive Advantage With Sterile Pharmaceutical Products
8/9/2012
Pharmaceutical companies are faced with assuring that new quality and compliance paradigms can be met while facilitating profitability to continue adequate business reinvestment. By Fran DeGrazio, Vice President, Global Research and Development, Pharmaceutical Packaging Systems West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.
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Ensure Integrity And Prevent Contamination In Single-Use Bags
As single-use systems continue to gain in popularity, so does the use of single-use bags. A single contract manufacturer can use thousands of bags per year. Gallus Biopharmaceuticals has used over 40,000 bags in just the past decade. Due to the volume increases in some of these bags, the prevention of possible contamination issues has never been more important. More pharma manufacturers are now looking to perform point-of-use tests to ensure the integrity of the bags they are using.
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Article: How To Choose An Industrial Cation Exchanger For IgG Purification
Cation-exchange chromatography is the third most used industrial method for antibody purification after anion-exchange and protein A affinity chromatography. It is most commonly used as an intermediate step but continues to attract attention as a capture method. By Pete Gagnon