Pharmaceutical Cleanroom News
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Oliver Healthcare Packaging Increases ISO 7 Cleanroom Presence
Oliver Healthcare Packaging Increases Global Manufacturing Footprint to Strengthen Local Customer Support and Service in Asia Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Markets. In addition to product manufacturing, the new ISO 7 cleanroom facility will include a testing lab & technical service center, a microbiological lab, and warehouse & distribution facilities. All equipment has been built and validated to meet or exceed ISO 13485 quality specifications.
WESTFALL TECHNIK, INC. Acquisition
Westfall Technik, Inc. makes a major move to expand capacity and capability with the acquisition of AMA Plastics, Inc. Westfall Technik has added another premier plastics processing business to its design, prototyping, toolmaking and molding capabilities in the Southwest.
Stem Cells Grow Bone and Cartilage Tissue
A new class of clay nanoparticles that can direct stem cells to become bone or cartilage cells. Human stem cells have shown potential in medicine as they can transform into various specialized cell types such as bone and cartilage cells. The current approach to obtain such specialized cells is to subject stem cells to specialized instructive protein molecules known as growth factors. However, use of growth factors in the human body can generate harmful effects including unwanted tissue growth, such as a tumor.
AbbVie Announces Global Resolution of HUMIRA®
AbbVie proclaimed that it has finalized a deal with Samsung Bioepis and their joint venture partner Biogen Inc. that would deter U.S. competition of their biosimilar version to blockbuster drug Humira (Adalimumab) until 2023. This would mark the second deal AbbVie has made in the past year, trying to protect patents on their favorable drug, Humira.
GenCure Biomanufacturing Facility
GenCure, a subsidiary of BioBridge Global, today opened the first phase of a new GenCure biomanufacturing facility designed to address a critical roadblock slowing the advancement of cellular therapies and the field of regenerative medicine
Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Atopic Dermatitis
AbbVie’s Upadacitinib Granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for Atopic Dermatitis. Atopic dermatitis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, is characterized by skin erosion, oozing and crusting, redness, intense itching (pruritus) and dry skin.12 Symptoms can appear as a rash on the skin, or the skin may become thickened and leathery.
Pharmaceutical Production Environments
Pharmaceutical production and packaging is commonly executed in a modular cleanroom facility. These controlled cleanroom environments eliminate sub-micron airborne contamination and particulate.
Golden NanoPill for Drug Delivery
Writing in the October 2017 issue of Advanced Optical Materials, Zhenpeng Qin, an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of Texas at Dallas, his team, and collaborators from the University of Reims (Dr. Jaona Randrianalisoa), reported the results of computational investigations into the collective optical properties of complex plasmonic vesicles.
Magnetic Biocompatible Photonic Crystals can be used both for Optics and Medicine
Researchers at ITMO University developed a new approach for obtaining non-toxic magnetic photonic crystals, expanding their applications from mainly photonics to biomedicine. Nanospheres made with the new method may be used for designing drugs to fight thrombosis and cancer.
Fosun Pharmaceutical to buy French drug distributor Tridem
Fosun Pharmaceutical to buy French drug distributor Tridem. The pharmaceuticals arm of Chinese conglomerate Fosun International has agreed to buy Tridem, an Africa-focused French drug distributor, for up to €63m ($73.1m).
Novartis plans acquisition of Advanced Accelerator Applications
Novartis announced today, that it has entered a memorandum of understanding with Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) under which Novartis intends to commence a tender offer for 100% of the share capital of AAA subject to certain conditions. Advanced Accelerator Applications (NASDAQ:AAAP) is a radiopharmaceutical company that develops, produces and commercializes Molecular Nuclear Medicines including Lutathera®
Shingrix Reaches US Approval
GlaxoSmithKline plc today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Shingrix (Zoster Vaccine Recombinant, Adjuvanted) for the prevention of shingles (herpes zoster) in adults aged 50 years and older. Shingrix is a non-live, recombinant subunit vaccine given intramuscularly in two doses.
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Pharmaceutical Cleanroom News and Advancements
The Pharmaceutical Cleanroom Industry or medicine industry is the commercial industry that discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceuticals for various uses and formations of medicines and medications. The pharmaceutical cleanroom industry produces the controlled aseptic cleanroom environments where by the pharmaceutical products are created and packaged. Pharmaceutical companies create a various array of products for different applications.
The primary developments of Pharmaceutical companies are generic medications, branded pharmaceuticals and medical devices. The pharmaceutical companies are subject to a variety of laws and regulations that govern the patenting, testing, safety, efficacy and marketing of drugs. Cleanroom Connect provides the latest Pharmaceutical Cleanroom News from various pharmaceutical and biopharma industries. Subscribe today to receive pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical news and updates directly to your mailbox.
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The Pharmaceutical Cleanroom Industry is a booming industry, and production has been growing exponentially over the past few decades as innovations in the medical field have taken off. This increasing production has also led to increasing demands for safety features installed in industrial pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and storage areas. These safety procedures ensure the health of employees as well as the safe preservation of products that are stored for later use by consumers.