Pharmaceutical Analysis

A rapid and environmentally friendly LC method for the simultaneous determination of 12 UV filters in cosmetic samples using ethanol as the mobile phase.

This article describes methods to quantitatively analyse genotoxic and potentially genotoxic impurities in pharmaceutical ingredients

Novel analytical methods for the discovery and trace analysis of biochemically active compunds in three main area are described: protein analysis, screening technologies and multidimensional separations.

Millipore has acquired European-based services provider BioAnaLab, extending the company&39;s biopharmaceutical services business into Europe.

BioTek Instruments has appointed Millennium Science as their official distributor in New Zealand. Millennium Science will now be responsible for sales and support of the company?s entire line of microplate-based instrumentation and software in New Zealand and Australia.

Grace Davison has received the 2009 R&D 100 award for its REVELERIS flash chromatography system. Flash chromatography is used in the purification of new entities in the early stages of drug discovery.

Phytronix Technologies and Agilent Technologies have signed an agreement to promote the Phytronix laser diode thermal desorption (LDTD) ion source with Agilent mass spectrometers.

American life sciences company Promega, has opened a new EuroLab facility in Charbonnières near Lyon, France. The laboratory will be used to develop new applications to address Europe?s scientific needs.

India is an increasingly influential player in the global pharmaceutical market. A pilot study, conducted in two major cities in India, Delhi and Chennai, explored the proliferation of substandard and counterfeit drugs in the market and discussed how the Indian state and federal governments could improve drug regulation and regulatory enforcement to combat this.

A provider of contract laboratory services and manufacturer of scientific instruments in the US, has opened a new European laboratory and office in Warwickshire, UK.

This one day meeting in London, UK, took a look at the use of SFC for pharmaceutical analysis.

Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen will open the doors of its new research centre, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Protein Research. The centre is the result of an historic donation from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which in 2007 gave the university €80 million for its establishment.

PerkinElmer and LEAP Technologies have entered into a resale agreement for ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technology.

The author looks at both the history and the recent developments in supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC).

Presented here are four types of evaporation-free extractions that are widely applicable.

The guest columnists continue their examination of how statistically rigorous QbD principles can be put into practice.

Several approaches for purifying difficult samples more efficiently for discovery research support are mentioned in this paper. These approaches use mass triggered HPLC on various specialty columns.

This month's "LC Troubleshooting" discussion will center on the recommendations of the CDER document, especially in terms of what it means from a practical method performance standpoint.

The authors investigate applications for ICP-MS detection with reversed-phase HPLC.

This second part of the series describes the data loss inherent in most early method development experiments due to coelution, peak exchange, and the general difficulty of accurately identifying peaks across the experiment trial chromatograms.

This installation of "Validation Viewpoint" describes how statistically rigorous quality-by-design (QbD) principles can be put into practice to accelerate each phase of liquid chromatography (LC) instrument method development.

While the "Validation Viewpoint" column has focused on conventional and recombinant pharmaceutical products, and at times, bioanalytical methods, we have just begun to think about method validation as it relates to -omics type studies.

This installment of SPP will compare and contrast the various types of polymeric and non-polymeric sorbents. The major advantages or polymeric sorbents will be discussed, and some applications will illustrate the versatility of polymeric SPE.

Very short columns filled with 1.9 µm particles were evaluated for the ultra-fast analysis of pharmaceutical formulations. Local anæsthetic, mydriatic and anti-hypertensive agents were chosen as analytes and a method was developed and validated for each of these substances, according to ICH guidelines. Excellent quantitative performance was obtained using an optimized chromatographic system that reduces the importance of extra-column effects and cuts the analysis time to less than 15 s.

The regulatory world and associated guidance documents within the pharmaceutical industry is changing rapidly. This column gives an overview of what's happened since the start of the year.