Outsourcing-Pharma Podcast

Continuous manufacturing offers significant advantages for drug production in terms of quality and efficiency, but more research and regulatory input is needed to help the pharmaceutical sector reap the benefits according to ISP.

LB Bohle says healthy level of demand for processing technology demos at its recently opened service centre is an indication of processing tech market recovery.

The biomanufacturing industry needs to adopt an integrated approach to upstream and downstream processing to boost efficiency and productivity according to EMD Millipore.

ATMI LifeSciences has introduced a new method of integrity testing for its range of single-use bioprocess vessels that, it claims, will take QA in the biomanufacturing sector to a new level.

Next month the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will organise a meeting to discuss ways of encouraging the production of pharmaceutical in Africa.

CRO and Pharma patient recruitment efforts can benefit from social networks and online patient groups, but clarification from the US FDA is still needed.

The mix of materials in confidential biopharm waste is a recycling challenge but also an opportunity to cut “ever increasing” landfill costs.

Contract packagers will lose deals if they fail to adapt to biopharm outsourcing “more and more” serialisation work, according to CEO of Covectra.

Clariant International has set up a unit to help the pharma sector overcome regulatory hurdles involved with developing colour packaging

Big pharma has taken a less heavy handed approach to relationships as cutbacks have made outsourcing key, according to Stephen Munk, CEO of Ash Stevens.