"A bitter pill to swallow" may be an old adage, but it actually has meaning to today's pharmaceutical industry and to chemists using modern chromatographic techniques.
"A bitter pill to swallow" may be an old adage, but it actually has meaning to today’s pharmaceutical industry and to chemists using modern chromatographic techniques.
The session "Pharmaceutical Analysis: Latest Trends in Taste and Flavor Assessment in Drug Product Formulations" went over the analytical techniques used to evaluate flavors and fragrances in pharmaceutical formulations. While flavor and odor analysis is common for the food and beverage industry, the pharmaceutical industry has just recently begun analysis to assist in quality control and patient compliance.
Presiding over this session was Kenneth J. Norris of Pfizer, who gave a presentation on the analytical methods for the analysis of flavors in pharmaceuticals. In his presentation, he discussed techniques such as e-nose, e-tongue, HPLC, LC/MS, DART, and GC techniques, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
The next presentation was by Jean-Christophe Mifsud of Alpha MOS, whose session, "Improving the Manufacturing Quality Consistency of Food and Soft Drink Products Using the Electronic Nose and Tongue" explained the electronic nose and tongue analyzation techniques being in the food and beverage industry. Mifsud explained how these techniques, used for product development and quality control, are being looked at as an alternative to traditional GC and GC-MS techniques.
The remaining presentations discussed drug product characterization by macropixel analysis of chemical images, which gave details of exploring imaging-based algorithms that produce quantitative descriptions of heterogeneity, and then the session was ended with an overview of electronic tongue and nose applications for improving the taste and flavor acceptance of pharmaceutical products.
Microseparations and Analysis Covered at HPLC 2024
July 23rd 2024At HPLC 2024 in Denver, Colorado, various sessions will be led by experienced scientists, covering different aspects of chromatography techniques and maximizing their effectiveness. Here is some information about tomorrow’s sessions.
Automated LC Method Development: An HTC-18 Interview with Bob Pirok
July 23rd 2024At HTC-18 in Leuven, Executive Editor of LCGC International, Alasdair Matheson, spoke to this year’s winner of the 2024 HTC-18 Innovation Award, Bob Pirok from the University of Amsterdam, about his innovative research on automated LC method development.