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Non-human sugars could compromise biologic drugs

July 28, 2010 Manufacturing and Production biologicals, biologics, manufacturing

Many of the biologic drugs on the market today contain sugar molecule components that in some patients could undermine their …

Bill would give FDA mandatory recall powers

July 27, 2010 Manufacturing and Production FDA, manufacturing compliance, recalls

The chairman of the US congressional committee investigating the quality control problems at Johnson & Johnson, Edolphus Towns, has introduced …

Sales of bioreactors in Asia boost Sartorius

July 27, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Sartorius, manufacturing and production, manufacturing equipment

Processing equipment company Sartorius posted a healthy 6% increase in sales in the first half of 2010 to 315 million …

Talking Point: The cool chain

July 27, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Biocair, logistics, supply chain, talking logistics

A Cool Chain (or Cold Chain) is a supply chain along which a product’s temperature is maintained from the point …

Phage Pharma appoints David Jackson

July 27, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Phage, appointment, manufacturing and production

US clinical-stage development and manufacturing company Phage Pharmaceuticals has appointed David Jackson VP of operations planning. He will be responsible …

Reaxa heads UK manufacturing consortium

July 23, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Reaxa, manufacturing

Catalyst specialist Reaxa will lead a consortium, backed by more than £700,000 ($1.1 million) in UK government funding, to develop …

Lonza boosts profit despite contract manufacturing downturn

July 23, 2010 Manufacturing and Production 2010 financials, Lonza, Q2

Switzerland’s Lonza posted a healthy increase in profits in the first half of 2010, topping analysts’ expectations, although sales dipped …

Manufacturing Q&A: Eden Biodesign

July 20, 2010 Business Services, Manufacturing and Production Eden Biodesign, careers, manufacturing

How long has your company been operating? Eden Biodesign is enjoying its tenth anniversary this year. How is your field …

J&J cited by FDA for another manufacturing facility

July 20, 2010 Manufacturing and Production J&J, JJ, manufacturing compliance

Another week, another raft of bad news for Johnson & Johnson’s manufacturing division. With one production facility already shut down …

Excipient problem leads to Coumadin recall

July 20, 2010 Manufacturing and Production BMS, manufacturing compliance, recalls

Bristol-Myers Squibb is recalling nearly 150,000 tablets of its anticoagulant product Coumadin distributed across the US because some of them …

Manufacturing news in brief

July 20, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Apicore, Emergent, Merck & Co, PPS, Tianyin, lilly

A crop of facility announcements from Merck & Co, Emergent, Tianyin, Apicore and PPS offset more job loss news from …

Merck Millipore unveiled as $7bn acquisition completed

July 20, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Merck KGaA, Millipore

Germany’s Merck KGaA has completed its $7 billion acquisition of processing equipment specialist Millipore, officially launching the combined Merck Millipore …

Lonza wins two biologic contracts

July 16, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Elusys, Human Genome Sciences, Lonza

Swiss fine chemicals firm Lonza has secured two new contracts for its contract manufacturing division for monoclonal antibodies to treat …

Semi-synthetic shortcut could boost supply of antimalarial

July 15, 2010 Manufacturing and Production malaria

US researchers are pushing forward with the development of a cheaper, semi-synthetic version of artemisinin, the basis of the most …

Genzyme says it will double size of its Framingham site

July 13, 2010 Manufacturing and Production Genzyme

Genzyme has unveiled a major expansion of its manufacturing facility in Framingham, Massachusetts, which suggests that the company intends to …
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